Sway bars

[amawds]

Searched but couldn't find an answer. Putting together an '80 with stock '71 springs, yellow koni's, and tubular front a-arms with the poly bushings. On my '76 I have a rear anti sway, and don't particularly like how often the rear inside tire kicks up. I typically only push the car in tight corners so my setup needs to be somewhat leaning towards autox style driving I suppose. I love lower speed quick turns. Understeer isn't necessarily a huge issue as long as it isn't terribly severe. Basically I want to skip the rear bar this time around and throw on the 1" front bar. Unfortunately our options appear to be one single bar that fits like crap and requires a bunch of modification and hitting things to get it to fit. Typical cheap manufacturer cornering a market by designing something "close enough" and selling it for 500% cost. Is this not the truth anymore? Did they fix the initial issues and all the complaints I'm seeing are "generation one" of the design or something? The bar I'm referring to is the Addco sold by most of the common vendors. Is there another manufacturer that I just cannot find?

[htchevyii]

I made spacers out of 2x2 box tubing for the frame mounts. Yes, it's hard to believe that you have to modify a brand new part to fit.

[TStark]

Albeit this spider stuff is new to me,

But i just replaced the original sway bar bushings, with markedy good results.
Afterward, found another vendor with polyurethane bushings, that would have been even better.

I'm working on an alternative rear sway bar that is free of bushings, that is much simpler in design. I think the combination will be good and i may not miss the 1" front bar option.

My experience was old fox mustang autocrossing; that was sweet because 40 seconds with a ratchet one can arrive at the site, loosen the strut tower bolts, move the struts inward for an agressive camber and that automatically makes and perfectly aggressive toe-out for short radius turns and wipes out most understeer and pushing. When done, 40 seconds with a ratchet the car is back to street form, never have to lie on the ground.

After finding my 'new' fiat with wildly distorted toe-in, set it to 3/16" toe-out and love it.
Doesn't push in the corners at all, and just took it for a 80 mph highway run and it tracked straight and took the bridge joints with confidence.
Toe-out is common on front wheel drive cars, its not too crazy a thing to do.

If tight-radius cornering is really your thing, you may consider it if you're not there already.
And you may consider std size poly bushings up front, maybe that will push the rear back down some

[Ptoneill]

This is how I mounted the addco bar, I did it by only using the parts supplied and by separating and flipping the oem front bracket. This is on a 79.



Be advised that there were no real instructions.

Good luck!

[jimmycakes401]

Thanks for the info guys.