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Ron Stygar Carl Buckland Dale Beuning Forums Help
From digest.v7.n328 Wed Sep 24 22:38:22 1997 I ran into an interesting experience installing Dinan Adjustable Sway Bars on my E36 M3. Front went on easy, without a hitch. The Rear setup is more complex and I would strongly urge anyone contemplating this to take careful note of the dogbone orientation before dissassembly. The Dogbones can easily be reversed upon re-assembly and I struggled with the install on this because the Dinan directions state three different times to have the dogbone alignement tab to the rear. Well now, guess what....the dogbones tabs go to the front on my car. The Dinan instructions were flat wrong! Grrrrrrrrrr...........Also, the bench vice press-in sleeve bushing Dinan uses really grinds up the factory bushing so there is no going back to stock unless you pony up for new a new set of dogbones. A quick call to Dinan the morning after confirmed my suspicions. "Yeah, we have some bad instruction sets floating around on a few of the car models". "Oh, by the way , the diagrams for increasing/decreasing understeer by various slots MAY be reversed on your set of directions, too...depends on which instruction set you have ". Great, guys. Oh, for the record, the rear Dinan sway bar mounts to the inside of the dogbones, not the outside (they neglect to tell you that and it can be installed either way - ask me how I know). I know a lot of you guys stick with Dinan through thick and thin and that's great, but I'm FAR more impressed with Will Turner _at_ Turner Motorsports as the Ultimate Tuner. Will's not steered me wrong yet. And yes....the sway bars certainly DO make a noticeable difference. I think I've finally managed to get a fully neutral car now that oversteers just ever so slightly. Perfect.
Duane Collie P.S. You won't believe the amount of crap that falls in your eyes when you work on the rear bar. Get your safety glasses out. |
