Help to source anti-roll bar?

[Guyc]

All

I an trying to locate both a front (20mm) and a rear (18mm) anti-roll / sway bar with bushings etc from Whteline for a Mk1b AW11 1989. The rears are still available new but the fronts have been discontinued. The manufacturers part number for the front bar is BTF20Z. Does anyone know where I might be able to source one of these bars from, maybe purchased new and never fitted or NOS sat on a distributers shelf somewhere? I have contacted several distrubuters so far, but no luck.

Many thanks in advance.

[Watchman]

Sorry for the late reply if you haven't already found one try here.
http://www.mr2mk1toyotaspares.com/#!pro ... 660c60a7a5

[Guyc]

Thanks for the lead - I have asked but they only have original spec bars available, none of the aftermarket ones.

[jimi]

General consensus of opinion among MK1 owners is that the standard front 18mm ARB is thick enough, but the rear needs upgraded to 18 mm.
A cheap rear upgrade is to use a MR2 MK2 Turbo (rev 1 or 2) ARB (IIRC 19mm) with MK1 front ARB brackets and 19mm bushes, I believe it's virtually a straight fit just needs a very slight elongation of the MK1 bracket holes

[Guyc]

Thank you for that insight. I had read that as the MR2 is mid-engined the front bar needs to be bigger than the rear to stop the rear steppng out (as opposed to a front engined car where the rear needs to be bigger) - not sure of the physics behind that.