Tri-Point Engineering front swaybar

I'd been trying to figure out what swaybars to run on the car for awhile.  On my old CSP MX-5, I ran a Mazdaspeed RX-8 front bar along with the stock rear bar.  However, most of the time, I ran with the rear bar disconnected. 

In working with my friend Jason Saini, he told me that Tri-Point Engineering had a speedway style front bar for the car.  For those unfamiliar with this style of bar, it's used primarily on Nextel Cup, Craftsman Truck, and Busch GN cars.  The advantage is that the middle section of the bar is separate from the ends, so it's possible to easily change rates by just changing the middle.  This middle section has splines at both ends which the "arms" attach to.  In the case of the Tri-Point bar, the arms are made of aluminum and have five adjustment holes per side, which gives a lot of adjustment.  It also came with adjustable endlinds that can be adjusted on the car.  According to Tri-Point, the softest setting is 55% stiffer than the stock MX-5 bar.

Obviously I'll still need to figure out what to do with the rear bar, but I'm going to start with the stock bar and tune from there.

The install was pretty easy.  Since the middle section can easily be pushed into place from one side.  I used a little white-out to mark the arm and the bar for reassembly.  After that, it was pretty much the same as any other swaybar.  The only other thing that needed to be done was to grind down the bushing brackets a little to allow the remounting of the ABS sensor bracket that can be seen in one of the pictures.