Home Depot rear anti-roll bar

[FreeYourSOUL]

I believe that. When we built the Festiva "race car" (the dreaded FASTIVA autocross car), we welded a piece of flat steel across the bottom of the beam axle to make it a box. It worked GREAT! But, ultimately, the axle cracked near the welds on both ends. It definitely concentrates a lot of extra stress in that area when you remove the flex from the center section.

In our case, we caught it early, welded the hairline cracks, and continued to "send it". Probably not the best answer for a daily-driven street car.

Keep a close eye on the area around the welds for signs of stress fractures. Especially since you're already introducing "unusual" stresses with the toe-correction kit you have in place. As long as you're just casually street driving it, it will probably be fine. We beat the heck out of that poor Festiva with multiple drivers autocrossing it every other weekend with stick 225-width tires for a year and a half.

Hi, reading this make me want to check mine....and there are hairline fractures on both spring stays.

[Eggman]

Hi, reading this make me want to check mine....and there are hairline fractures on both spring stays.

That's not good. Are you running with stock springs or aftermarket springs? By the color of the springs in your picture they look like aftermarket but just want to be sure. And if so, what kind?

[FreeYourSOUL]

That's not good. Are you running with stock springs or aftermarket springs? By the color of the springs in your picture they look like aftermarket but just want to be sure. And if so, what kind?

I am running with TEIN springs, custom antiswaybar, and 195mm wheels with +40 offset.
Location of fractures are where the antiswaybar bracket end, I remember it still fine 2 years ago before i put wider wheels on.
Doing 60+ kph corner everyday and sometime 80-100kph on highway cloverleaf interchange, looks like the torsion beam end put too much stress with wider wheels.



This picture is before i put wider wheels on and it's fine for couple years, no visible fracture.