Sway bar options? Matching components.

MileHighDart said

This is what I’m doing. Pretty much decided on the Hotchkis tubular sway bar. I’ve already bought a set of non tabbed lower control arms, and bought the stiffening plates from PST . Just need some new bushings, and need to buy the sway bar so I have the tabs to weld on the arms. Also I just bought a set of the Hotchkis adjustable strut rods to install at the same time.
Im just going back and forth on the bushing thing, rubber vs poly. Car will almost see nothing but street use, maybe an autocross or drag strip once or twice a year.
Would be interested in your input on bushings

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Sorry, just got back to replying to this one.

You're already using adjustable strut rods, so personally I would lean toward poly LCA bushings. I would include a set of greaseable LCA pivot pins with those though, I like the ones Firm Feel makes. The reason being is that the OE style rubber bushings out there now aren't that great of quality rubber. The biggest drawbacks to the poly bushings are the squeaking and a little extra fore/aft slip on the strut rod. But those drawbacks are solved with the greaseable pivot pins and adjustable strut rods. I've put tens of thousands of miles on the plain old energy suspension poly LCA bushings, and they've held up great. The ones I recently swapped out for Delrin bushings on my Duster still looked brand new after 10k miles.

On that note, there's also Delrin bushings available from Bergman AutoCraft. They're awesome, but for nothing but street use they're a little expensive, the poly bushings are much cheaper and still hold up well. I really like the Delrin bushings, but for your application I would file them under "overkill".