One thing's for sure, I absolutely don't want to rotate the car (get the rear to step out due to oversteer) in any situation. I just want to reduce understeer a bit without also upsetting the stability over bumps, on highways, etc.
This. Keep in mind that changing out the rear swaybar will not turn your civic into an oversteering monster. At best, it’ll bring that oversteer more within reach. Swaybar stiffness for the most part affects steady state cornering attitude. A lot, I mean a lot of driver input will influence over- and understeer situations. With the correct tires, the ideal line, and optimized alignment settings, you can make a car handle corners extremely well. Swaybars are the last thing you adjust as far as tuning, and generally set to the softest settings if the springs and shocks are properly sorted.
I’ve installed and removed the CTR and the Whiteline rear bars with the wheels on ramps and the suspension at normal ride height, so it is possible to do that way. But I’m at stock height. It might be harder to do on a lowered car this way.
I think the Accord Sport sway bar is not as thick as the Si. I saw earlier someone commented on the weight thinking it was hollow, but I believe it is the same size as the civic sport bar.
The CTR brackets “appear” to be dimensionally the same as the Sport brackets. But when I removed the Sport brackets off the CTR bar/bushings, they were extremely tight. I installed the CTR brackets on the CTR bar/bushings, and when the time came to replace the bar with the Whiteline one, the brackets came off no problem.
Actually, there's already (since 2017) a detailed resource for all this info and a full DIY here:
Wow! I searched for hours and never came across that one some how even with google. Maybe because I typed sway bar instead of stabilizer bar lol. Thanks and now lost souls like me will have a better chance of finding it.
