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I have an Eibach bar for sale...lol
Are you serious about having an Eibach for sale, or just joking?
(difficult to tell, since you followed it with an LOL)
 

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Yeah, 25mm CTR Eibach rear swaybar bought from Tire Rack. I bought it when I was waiting for the replacement part from Karcepts when that was broken so I have something to run at a Tour event in the meantime. Probably less than 1500 miles on the car and 2 autoX events on it. I am not including any endlinks since I am keeping my stock ones to use with my stock bar for winter. The bar came with its own bushing and mounting brackets.

I'll actually take some pictures and make a for sale post later, probably looking for $160 shipped
 


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Eibach 25mm should work fine. I have both a Karcepts and a Whiteline 22mm. I plan on putting the Whiteline back on for the winter, and swapping to the Accord OEM end links, part # 52320-TLB-A00
What I can confirm is that the Si end links are not optimal for use with the CTR Eibach 25mm bar. I did order a pair of the Accord Sport End links and it looks like they should work. Trying to stick with OEM as this car lives outside in the Northeast. The issue us due the CTR bar kicking out at the ends while the Si bar and most of the replacements I have seen are basically just a straight 90 at both ends. The thickness of the bar exaggerates the angle that the end link needs to live between the bar and the lower control arm. Will be doing this tomorrow so I will report back. The other options appear to be Whiteline which is adjustable and has an OEM type ball joint and also the SiriMoto Phase 2's which are all spherical.
 

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Curious, has anyone seen enough data to estimate if 2nd gear is impacted (negatively) by the revised gearing in the 2020s?

Asking for a friend :D
 


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Final drive was 4.10 for 2019, 4.35 for 2020. Perhaps I am figuring it wrong but info here.
Interesting - looking at the specs page for the 2020 Si (outside of the "news" page, going to automobiles.honda.com) it still has the 4.105.

Sounds like the 2020 is a non-starter...
 
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The Eibach 25mm CTR bar works fine on these cars. I trophied in Lincoln with one, and the winning car had one. Put it on full stiff and forget about it.
 

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Looking at the bar size at least I am guessing its probably very similar to the Karcepts on stiff setting on rate(behaves pretty close also). Where you are going to be softer is its still mounted on rubber bar bushing(Karcepts has solid machined plastic(Delrin or the like) on stiff aluminum block mount. The biggest + for Karcepts is its ability to adjust across a wide stiffness range. Even though the Eibach has 2 settings the range is pretty small, also pretty hard to do. More useful if you worry about wet/dry switch...
 

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The 25mm bar fits with the Accord endlinks, for the cost they are a great option. We believe at full droop the bar will most likely go into a bind situation. Due to the angle of the endlink at the lower control arm mounting point. Did not get to measure as the other lift was occupied. Thanks for the comments.
 


 


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