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Energy Suspension 27mm Front Sway Bar Bushings - 2001-2005 Honda Civic Non-Si
If your EM2 leans more than you'd like through a corner, or the front end feels a touch lazy turning in, your sway bar bushings are a cheap, easy thing to fix first. Those soft factory rubber bushings let your front sway bar squirm in its mounts, so the bar doesn't really get to work until you've already rolled over more than you wanted. This Energy Suspension set swaps that mushy rubber for firm 27mm polyurethane bushings, so your sway bar starts fighting body roll the instant you turn the wheel. It's one of the best bang-for-buck handling upgrades on the EM2/ES1 and you can knock it out in your driveway.
What Your Worn Rubber Bushings Are Doing To You
Here's what's going on down there. Your front sway bar ties your left and right wheels together so the car stays flat in a corner, but it can only do that if it's clamped down tight in its mounts. Honda made the stock bushings soft on purpose for a quiet, cushy ride, and after years and miles they're even softer and more worn than the day they left the factory. So when you turn in, the bar twists and shifts around in that squishy rubber before it ever loads up, and that little delay is exactly the rolly, lazy feeling you're picking up on. Firm the mount up and the bar responds right now, not half a second later.
Why Polyurethane Beats The Rubber
These are Energy Suspension's Hyper-Flex polyurethane, and the whole point is stiffness. Poly doesn't flex and squirm the way tired rubber does, so your sway bar's actually planted and gets to work the moment you crack the wheel. Turn-in tightens up, the car stays flatter through a corner, and a lot of people say it feels like they went up a sway bar size, all from a part that costs a fraction of what a bigger bar does. And poly just lasts. It shrugs off the heat, oil, and grime that turn rubber hard and crumbly, so you're not back under there redoing these in a couple years. They're red, too, if you care how things look underneath.
Cheap, Quick, And You'll Feel It
This is about the most handling you can buy for the least money. You're not pulling the suspension apart, you're just unbolting the two sway bar mounts up front, popping the old bushings off the bar, clamping these on, and bolting it back together. Give yourself an hour with hand tools and you're done. One tip that matters: poly needs grease to stay quiet, so coat the inside of each bushing with the grease that comes in the kit. Skip it and you'll get an annoying squeak over every bump. Grease them right and they stay dead silent while they do their thing.
What You Get
- Energy Suspension 27mm front sway bar bushing set for the 2001-2005 Civic Non-Si
- Covers both the driver and passenger side bushings
- Hyper-Flex polyurethane, far more durable than factory rubber
- Sharper turn-in and less body roll than worn stock bushings
- Red finish
- Grease included for quiet operation
- Direct replacement for the factory bushings, easy install
Fits These Cars
- 2001-2005 Honda Civic DX/EX/LX, 27mm front sway bar
Note: Energy Suspension 27mm front sway bar bushing set for the 2001-2005 Honda Civic, covering both driver and passenger sides. Made from Hyper-Flex polyurethane that holds the front sway bar firmly for sharper steering response and reduced body roll versus worn factory rubber, with much better durability against heat, oil, and age. Red finish, grease included. Direct replacement for the stock bushings with a straightforward install. Sized for the factory 27mm front bar, so confirm your bar diameter before ordering if you are running an aftermarket sway bar. One set per order.