mario60185

Hey there...Brian at 350zonlinestore is a great guy and told me he would match any price i could find for the hotchkis sways online. Has anyone seen them or know where to get them cheaper? He told me $325.00 shipped. Not bad but i thought ive seen them for like 2 something and shipping cant be that much.

1nate7

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GSC (vendor on this site) has them for $275 shipped. Titan motorsports used to sell them for $250 shipped but you had to call them.

mario60185

your the man! whats their website?

mgl

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try titan motorsports.

btw, you might want to order the collars when you order the sways, so you can install it all at once.

1nate7

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GSC
Titan

You might have to send a PM or call to get the best price.

mario60185

What collars?

brendone

McMaster-Carr sells collars you can put on the sways to keep them from sliding back and forth creating some noise. Someone posted part #'s in one of the threads. Costs ~$15 for the 4 collars.

mario60185

Is this for all the sways or just hotchkis? And how bad is the noise? Why is there noise?

brendone

Most sways have the collar "built In". The sway bar is held in by a greased rubber mount. With movement the rubber mount will eventually dry out and you'll have metal on rubber which can squeak. The front sway comes with a grease nipple so you can lubricate this from time to time, but you can probably reduce the amount of times with the collars.
Heres a picture of the stock vs. hotchkiss sway. You can see the silver collars on the red bar are the ones I've added. On the stock black bar, the silver collar is a permanent piece.

rgreene

After installing these collars will you not need to re-grease the rubber every year (like Hotchkis recommends on their instructions)?

lovetoclown

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What kind of noises did you get with the collars?

mgl

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if you get the collars, you will reduce the possibility of getting the noise.

the noise is a clunking like sound.

rgreene

where can you buy these collars?

nbdyfcnsqnc

I'm not sure those collars are a good idea. I don't think swaybars are supposed to be fixed like that, or they would be... but I don't know.

brendone

The stock sways as well as other aftermarket ones have a collar so I figure for $15 they're a pretty safe investment.

lovetoclown

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I did not have any clunking until I installed the collars. Now I have clunking with the collars.

mgl

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really?
then why did you buy the collars in the first place?

brendone

You might need to adjust the collars. If there's a gap between them and the sway bracket you'll get a clunk on some bumps and corners. I put mine on before I installed them, then adjusted them once things were hooked up.

In the earlier thread I read, people were mentioning a squeak coming from the bar and that was from the bar slipping, which is what the collar is meant to prevent.

brendone

Here's the thread I read from motoring. Hotchkis Squeaking

rgreene

Hrm, so after reading that... for somebody that is just going to have these installed on their daily driver in a dry climate, getting the collars probably isn't a big deal as long as they are regreased every year (as hotchkis recommends), right?