Nascar sway bar install, How I did it. Pics! Options

[Andyrew]

Well, heres what i've been doing past couple of days, between work...

Dad told me to make it strong enough to lift the car... so hopefully I did..

My welds were not what I would have liked them to be.. there was something wrong with my welder, it was giving me inconsistant wire speed. I'll take it in and have it looked at. and the angles were hard...

I can make good welds.. Honest (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif)

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heres the pics

[Andyrew]

The hardest part so far was getting it correct in geometry.. all I basically did for that was bolt the bar with the bushing to my mount, placed it in, got it where I liked it, and tacked it in... Simple actually...

But the next hardest part is the droplinks... The current sway bar arms are FAT... 10lbs a piece!!! and they are LONG... uber uber long.. So i figure, I could cut them off about 1/2 inch off the last neccesary part for the arm.. and weld on some square tubing. 1/8in, 1x1 or maybe bigger cut a long hole on the bottom, and about 5 or more holes on the sides to place the droplinks. Droplinks can be made using some good hardware so they pivot a little.. Then maybe put a bushing on the bottom where it attaches to the A arm...

Main reason for me to have this sway bar is for adjustablity.. On the track, dial the bar down... on the autox and street, dial it up! (street corners dont see over 40mph....)

Currently no sway bar on the rear... It would be too much rear... I believe this will put me very near neutral.. I might have to go with a bigger bar.. but those are readily avalible and just drop right in (goody goody cheepo nascar parts..)

Andrew