Markuscurillious
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Anyone know of some cost effective sway bars?
Anyone know of some cost effective sway bars?
Hellwig. Bought front and rear online from SD Truck springs. Best price I could find. I subscribed to their mailing and got them on sale. Drastic improvement in the corners.
Any one have experience on just Installing the rear?
I know if the bar is too big it won’t have any sway and we’ll ya know if you have just a back one wouldn’t it have a little sway just don’t want to buy like three sway bars to find the perfect balance.
just want to find people’s different preference in suspension
I definitely wouldn’t install a rear bar without a front bar. I don’t know what your suspension set up looks like, but in general these cars are softer up front than out back. So a front bar without a rear bar usually works ok, even well depending on the set up. A rear without a front is a set up for serious oversteer unless you’ve done something weird with your suspension set up.
The rear bar was a game changer on my car and it's just some old bar (pst bar maybe) that was in my trunk when I bought my car.
The rear is so much more stiff now.
Op- I think you'll be happy with what ever bar you get. Better bars = more money.
Did you already have a stock or aftermarket front bar.
i just don"t wanna be torn from my steering wheel when i decide i wanna take the "sub road" to my house but still ride it ouT DONT WANT IT TO BE STIFF...i used to own a comero.. cammmero....idk but it handled well my dad is a chevy guy i guess id be his siny son i i had a chevy II
What suspension parts are you running right now? Stock torsion bars and springs? Stock control arms and rubber bushings? What shocks?
All of that stuff makes a difference. Just adding sway bars shouldn't stiffen the ride quality a ton in a straight line, but they should reduce body roll and add to the overall spring rate when cornering.
The other thing is that a lot of cars sit lower than they did from the factory, and with the stock torsion bars up front that means the suspension is usually bottoming out. Guys mistake that for a stiff ride and don't want to use larger torsion bars. But upgrading to stiffer bars can actually improve the ride in many cases because it will eliminate the suspension bottoming out. These cars were massively undersprung in the front from the factory, especially if you're running radials because the original design was for bias ply's, which have a lot less grip. Aftermarket sway bars should help a bunch, but if you're still running all stock parts otherwise you may need to take it a step further.
I have a stock front on my 66. I wish it had a rear to balance it out. It always feels strange when the front corners flat and then the body twists as the rear comes up. Subframe ties would help that car a lot as well. Things loosen up a lot on 50 year old cars. Especially hardtops. Sedans are more rigid and converts have a lot more reinforcement.