help with finding sway bar Spring end links?
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help with finding sway bar Spring end links?
I bought mine years ago from VB&P. I need another set for a new QA-1 friends project. The beauty is adjustability. When you are driving down a rough road you want your tires to keep road contact. So if you throw on stiffer front springs and say a 1 1/8th front sway bar you have greatly increased the tires ability to make verticle travel. By adding spring end links it allows for small wheel verticle travel before the spring compresses and then sway bar comes into play.
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Joined: Apr 1999
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From: Reno Nevada
2024 C3 of the Year Finalist- Modified
just what I was looking for. I'm big on adjustability. When you install something like a QA-1 coil over shock kit on the front end of a Vette they spring ends are very benificial. So I installed the 450# QA1 single adjust with tubular upper and lower a-arms. The 69 had solid rod ends on the front sway. So you kind of guess at the front ride height on installation by turning up the collars to @ 1 3/4 inches using my vette as an example. After driving the 69 around to settle the springs his front end was 1/2 inch higher on the passenger side. So when I turned the collar down to get the 1/2 inch the sway bar pulled the drivers down a 1/4 inch. So you had to tweak both sides because of the sway bar 1 1/8th. The spring end idea makes the front tires more independant.
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just what I was looking for. I'm big on adjustability. When you install something like a QA-1 coil over shock kit on the front end of a Vette they spring ends are very benificial. So I installed the 450# QA1 single adjust with tubular upper and lower a-arms. The 69 had solid rod ends on the front sway. So you kind of guess at the front ride height on installation by turning up the collars to @ 1 3/4 inches using my vette as an example. After driving the 69 around to settle the springs his front end was 1/2 inch higher on the passenger side. So when I turned the collar down to get the 1/2 inch the sway bar pulled the drivers down a 1/4 inch. So you had to tweak both sides because of the sway bar 1 1/8th. The spring end idea makes the front tires more independant.
