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Are these sway bars the 968 or 944 mo30s?

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Old 11-20-2006, 11:01 PM
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Looking at upgrading the sway bars and saw these for sale. I wanted to know if these are the 968 mo30s or the 944s? I searched the threads for a parts list to no avail. Thanks,

30mm front 944.343.706.30
19mm rear adjustable 944.333.701.01
Old 11-20-2006, 11:15 PM
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968 M030- best the factory made.
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I have a question that is probably easily answered. Is there a larger M030 rear sway than the standard 968 Coupe for the later year 968 cabs? Someone had brought this up once but said they are not available anymore. Any truth to that?
Old 11-21-2006, 04:27 AM
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968 m030. I lust for those.
Old 11-21-2006, 08:18 AM
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Apparently someone else did too! Thanks, guys, for the info though.
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Originally Posted by KuHL 951
I have a question that is probably easily answered. Is there a larger M030 rear sway than the standard 968 Coupe for the later year 968 cabs? Someone had brought this up once but said they are not available anymore. Any truth to that?
Not that I can find. The standard 968 came with 26.8 front, 16mm rear (same as the later 89 951). The 968 Auto Trans (Tip) w/ M030 used an 18mm rear bar, and the 968 6-spd w/ M030 used the 19mm 3-way adj rear bar - both M030 versions used the 30mm front.

There are two other larger rear sway bars that were made. The 944S M030 option came with a non-adj. 20mm rear bar (those are pretty rare), and the Turbo Cup/Club Sports had the 21mm 3-way adj bars.
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Upgrading to the M030 bars was one of the best mods I've done to my car...if you can get them and the bushings, I highly recommend it!

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Old 11-21-2006, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by KuHL 951
I have a question that is probably easily answered. Is there a larger M030 rear sway than the standard 968 Coupe for the later year 968 cabs? Someone had brought this up once but said they are not available anymore. Any truth to that?
You can put the 968 M030 bars on the Cab, but they never came with them from the factory. Porsche never had an option for M030 on the Cab's because they thought it wasn't a stiff enough chassis, even though they double walled the floor. I plan on putting the M030 bars on my 968 Cab at some point. By the way the 968 bars on the coupe and cab are the same bar's as the M030 bars on the 944's and 951's.
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+1 on the M030 968 sway bars. 30 mm up front is as hefty as anyone could possibly need IMO. The 19 mm rear bar, even in the shortest setting can sometimes leave you wishing you had more rear stiffness, especially for track and autox use. I use 26.8/19 on my track car NA with delrin front bushings and the rear got much better when I added KLA drop link kit and the billet/delrin rear bar bushing Racers Edge kit, both from Paragon. My Turbo S has 30/19 combo with front delrin bushings and 968 rear coil over Konis. It works pretty well, too although it still tends to understeer a bit at the limit...probably not a bad thing with all those Turbo S ponies challenging my meager performance driving skills.
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That's strange, maybe my car's out of balance, or it's my driving, but my car oversteers a lot. I have the standard 16mm rear bar, and 26.8mm front bar. I wanted to buy the M030 set and probably use only the front bar, but I'd do some swapping and testing.
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Sooooo... anyone have a set of mo30s for sale?
Old 11-22-2006, 12:11 AM
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wait so you dont have mo30's in your possestion?! lol

edit - oh just reread and saw that you didn't get the sway bars you were looking into! my bad!
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Thanks for rubbing it in!

I do have an extra set of wheels and 3 snow tires though...



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