Front Sway bar, Front sway bar |
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Front Sway bar, Front sway bar |
simonjb |
Jun 18 2018, 03:03 PM
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KiwiMan Group: Members Posts: 563 Joined: 18-October 16 From: Stamford, Connecticut Member No.: 20,505 Region Association: North East States |
Probably a stupid question, but do all of the front sway bar products require welding to the chassis? My car did not come with sway bars.
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nathanxnathan |
Jun 29 2022, 02:50 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 282 Joined: 16-February 18 From: Laguna Beach, CA Member No.: 21,899 Region Association: Southern California |
Resurrecting this thread because I'm thinking about adding a stock front swaybar that I've had sitting around. At a G&R swapmeet many years ago I picked up a set of brackets that look a lot like these Elephant ones
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/www.elephantracing.com-21899-1656535807.1.jpg) They're all black maybe powdercoated though. I looked at a wayback machine how-to on Pelicanparts, that showed cutting a notch in the inner to let the bottom point of the bracket go through, and I've always thought that must be hard to do well — I've never seen it done where it doesn't look a bit butchered. Searching for how a factory installed sway bar mount (shown above in this thread), I am surprised it's welded from the outside only. It makes sense, I mean if the bracket is there to avoid tearing the fender sheet metal, as a reinforcement. The way they do it in the Pelican article, there's no way to weld below the area that you cut the slot for. Why not just drill the center hole and holes for the 3 nuts like the factory did and weld the bracket on/from the outside? Wouldn't this be stronger and cleaner than the cut slot method? I see the 914ltd version that has the top 2 nuts inside, the bottom 1 outside. The factory setup just seems really clean though. |
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