Racing style sway bar
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Le Mans Master
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From: Park Ridge IL
Racing style sway bar
I ordered a 48 spline, 37.5" long, 1 1/4"diameter, .250" wall sway bar, aluminum sway bar arms, billet collar and retainers from Speedway Engineering and was greeted by the UPS man today.
This bar will provide around 25% more torsional resistance per degree of twist than a stock style sway bar, varying depending on the length of the arm. This allows you two tuning parameters - swaybar (diameter, solid or hollow, wall thickness, length, spline count), as well as the lever arm acting on it. It's totally overkill for the street but if you are into precisely tuning your suspension, it allows you to swap sway bar rates quickly and relatively inexpensively.
This bar will provide around 25% more torsional resistance per degree of twist than a stock style sway bar, varying depending on the length of the arm. This allows you two tuning parameters - swaybar (diameter, solid or hollow, wall thickness, length, spline count), as well as the lever arm acting on it. It's totally overkill for the street but if you are into precisely tuning your suspension, it allows you to swap sway bar rates quickly and relatively inexpensively.
Melting Slicks
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Re: Racing style sway bar (Monty)
Overkill, for the street... sounds perfect for you! I really like it, I'll store that in my brain for future things to do. My dad may want something like that for his '64.
Le Mans Master
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Re: Racing style sway bar (Monty)
Oooo, that's cool. I never thought about doing that for the Vette. It never occured to me that the bar is straight and there is room to do it. I'm too used to muscle cars. You could also add the cool road race (Trans Am) style cockpit adjustable lever arm. I always thought those were neat.
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Re: Racing style sway bar (burners)
I've been thinking about the adjustable sway bars too, maybe a future project.
I saw these swaybar systems in a Stock Car Products catalog a couple of years ago, and then recently on the Mark Steilow "Mule" in Popular Hot Rodding a few months ago and thought they were neat, so I figured I'd apply it to the Vette - it can't be too hard.
I saw these swaybar systems in a Stock Car Products catalog a couple of years ago, and then recently on the Mark Steilow "Mule" in Popular Hot Rodding a few months ago and thought they were neat, so I figured I'd apply it to the Vette - it can't be too hard.
