WTB : Cusco items

[Oblivion]

Looking for Cusco Sway Bars (front and rear), also lower arm bars (front and rear). Willing to pay a reasonable price for good condition items!

[mpau009]

Looking for Cusco Sway Bars (front and rear), also lower arm bars (front and rear). Willing to pay a reasonable price for good condition items!

I got a quote from one of the NZ dealers, Maz-Sport http://maz-sport.com/about/about.htm

I cant remember exactly, but it wasnt rediculously expensive back when the $ was really high. Might be worth a shot if you cant get decent 2nd hand stuff.

[Oblivion]

Yeah I've contacted them already as I know they're the official distributors in NZ. They said Cusco dont make stuff for the VR4 anymore Or maybe they're lazy? A lot of trades people these days seem to be useless unless they have the part you want sitting in front of them. When did you get your quote?

[mpau009]

Yeah I've contacted them already as I know they're the official distributors in NZ. They said Cusco dont make stuff for the VR4 anymore Or maybe they're lazy? A lot of trades people these days seem to be useless unless they have the part you want sitting in front of them. When did you get your quote?

that was 8th September according to when i printed the contact info. I was going to go ahead with it, until i found my turbos are in need of attention.

I was told $550 / 600 for a front and rear pair depending on the exchange rate at the time, and that i would need to wait about a week for them to come in, since they werent in stock..

[CANDEE]

Yeah I've contacted them already as I know they're the official distributors in NZ. They said Cusco dont make stuff for the VR4 anymore Or maybe they're lazy? A lot of trades people these days seem to be useless unless they have the part you want sitting in front of them. When did you get your quote?

Mas-sport recon that they dont make sway bars for the legnums even though they are identical to the galants. RHD-Japan ftw!

[VR4 MAD]

Try RHD Japan.........Got my front and rear bars from them........$600 in my hands airfreighted.

Though that was a couple of months ago when the Yens conversion rate was very very good.........will be about 10% more now the Yen come back quite a bit.

Having said that the Yens conversion is on the rise again at the moment.

Good luck.

[bradc]

are they thicker and stiffer than usual Wynn?

[VR4 MAD]

are they thicker and stiffer than usual Wynn?

Brad, short answer........yes.

Cusco (old catalogue) indicates the following;

Front: (if I ready the Japanese correctly?) standard 22mm Dia. replaced with 24mm Dia. giving a stiffness increase of 140% of standard bar.

Rear: standard 20mm Dia. replaced with 22mm Dia. giving a stiffness increase of 130% of standard bar.

Couple of things to note - you can't get the front and back mixed up as their shapes are way different.

Secondly, the Cusco (Japan) web site doesn't appear to list them anymore. I'm sure they were there only a couple of months ago but they have revised their web site and all my links don't work anymore. Looking around the new site and the PDF catalogue doesn't include EC5A/W entries now.

So I reckon you don't muck around as they maybe going out of stock and not being produced anymore, hence not listed in their catalogue.

And yes, like a number of the goodies I've got, they haven't been fitted yet....

Say nothing Dixon8

[dixon8]

And yes, like a number of the goodies I've got, they haven't been fitted yet....

Say nothing Dixon8

nothing said!!!!!!!

[CANDEE]

Brad, short answer........yes.

Cusco (old catalogue) indicates the following;

Front: (if I ready the Japanese correctly?) standard 22mm Dia. replaced with 24mm Dia. giving a stiffness increase of 140% of standard bar.

Rear: standard 20mm Dia. replaced with 22mm Dia. giving a stiffness increase of 130% of standard bar.

Couple of things to note - you can't get the front and back mixed up as their shapes are way different.

Secondly, the Cusco (Japan) web site doesn't appear to list them anymore. I'm sure they were there only a couple of months ago but they have revised their web site and all my links don't work anymore. Looking around the new site and the PDF catalogue doesn't include EC5A/W entries now.

So I reckon you don't muck around as they maybe going out of stock and not being produced anymore, hence not listed in their catalogue.

And yes, like a number of the goodies I've got, they haven't been fitted yet....

Say nothing Dixon8

Ill store them on my car for you...

[Goku]

They still have them, I was just at the site today...

http://www.cusco.co.jp/products/pdf/06sta_86.pdf

EC5W is still on there.

With current exchange rates, they are about $215 each + shipping.

[VR4 MAD]

They still have them, I was just at the site today....

Yep your right. I was looking in the wrong area. Bloody translation software was misleading. The list I was looking at was for "roll bar" which is actually roll cages ...........which does have an entry for the old E38/39 VR4s.

Sorry for misleading everyone...........(quickly runs and hides in the corner)

[Goku]

wait... you need translation software to navigate that site ?

Dude, it's pretty self explanitory.

[VR4 MAD]

If you enter via the home page there's an english option somewhere up the top right of the page.

I entered via a link from my favourites which dropped me in the middle of the Japanese site with Google translation already active. I then navigated from there to what I thought was the correct sway bar page but as I said, the translation mislead me to the roll cage page.

As the page was a PDF and all in Japanese, the translation couldn't work and there wasn't any diagrams or anything to give much of a clue what I was looking at, just a list of codes and numbers.

I'm not a complete idiot, just mislead.

[Oblivion]

And yes, like a number of the goodies I've got, they haven't been fitted yet....

If you're still not using them and if I cant get them from rhdjapan I'll gladly take them off your hands and put them to good use! (for a reasonable price of course )

[VR4 MAD]

.............. if I cant get them from rhdjapan........ )

Don't worry you can still order them through RHD............SO GET YOUR EYES OFF MINE....

[Nigelator]

I wasnt aware we had a problem with our sway bars.
they just help us cornering right. and not for the rear wheels to move our too far from under the vehicle or is it to stop the car rolling when cornering?

[VR4 MAD]

I wasnt aware we had a problem with our sway bars.
.........................is it to stop the car rolling when cornering?

We don't really have a problem as such, it's like most things with production cars, they can be improved which is what the cusco bars do by being stiffer, thus reducing body roll during cornering.

[Oblivion]

Don't worry you can still order them through RHD............SO GET YOUR EYES OFF MINE....

Ok ok I just want them so bad! Making an order from RHDJapan next week

[bradc]

he lives in Wellington, lets go down and steal them

If we are making an order from RHD Japan, why don't we put up a thread in the NZ area and get a whole lot of stuff at once, we should save on freight and get a discount too.