Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Rear sway bar (RSB) upgrade

Another improvement made to this vehicle is an upgrade of the rear sway bar. I do not recall our factory RSB size, I believe it is a 17mm?

Shared chassis is always a great thing because I was able to choose rear sway bars from TSX, TL, and TLX. OEM means more economical and more accessible as well.

The final decision was to go with the 25.4mm from the TLX v6 and the part number is 52300-TZ3-A51 and bushings (x2) 52306-TZ3-A01. Factory endlinks and bushing brackets can be reused. 

This setup greatly neutralizes the vehicle and does induce oversteer at hard turns, allowing for more dynamic driving compared to factory's understeer biased configuration.

I do not have pics of the installed product but the following is a picture of it waiting to be installed.


Monday, August 13, 2018

JDM hazard switch swap

My tinkering itch got the best of me so I went and bought a JDM red hazard switch to change things up a bit for my interior.  The part number is 35510T2AJ01 and it came from Thailand.  I really like the colour contrast it brings to the center stack.

I've followed the instruction in the following YouTube video:


And the end product:
Night shot, showing the red glow


Bright red button... ohh ya!