Suspension Springs, struts, coilovers, sway-bars, camber plates, and all other modifications to suspension components for Cooper (R50), Cabrio (R52), and Cooper S (R53) MINIs.

Suspension Choice: Strut Tower Brace or rear sway bar

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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 10:34 PM
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By upgrading your front bar you may have negated any handling benefits of the rear bar. If you've upgraded to a 27mm bar in front you should be running a 22 solid or 25 hollow in the rear.

Originally Posted by ChrisMCS04
I love my rear sway bar. It is H-Sport's 19mm and I have it to its stiffest setting. I drive a bit aggressive on the streets its just more fun, + our cars already get good mileage so why not use some of it up for fun. Alright, so back to the bars. I also have a 27mm H-Sport front bar and it is set it its stiffest as well and last a rear strut tower bar. This RST does very little for handling, but this was on my car first and I could notice some change, but nothing like what the front and rear sway bars accomplished. I think that in the future I will switch to a 22mm or even the 25mm, as I really like the tail of my car stiff. For you, I would start with the 19mm and go from there.
 
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 04:43 PM
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Piece of cake. Jack the rear of the car up, remove the wheels loosen both links upper nut and play with the links back or forth, retighten links nuts at the desired position and put wheels back on. No more than 10 minutes.
 
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by jefeant
Piece of cake. Jack the rear of the car up, remove the wheels loosen both links upper nut and play with the links back or forth, retighten links nuts at the desired position and put wheels back on. No more than 10 minutes.
With some wheels, you can even do it through the spokes... without taking the wheels off (e.g. five spokes wheels with room for your hands and a wrench to fit through to the endlink...)
 
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