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Old 11-02-2012, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by 1961ba427
I've got enough of that to deal with running the spooled 12 bolt....getting tired of it in a true daily driver. It's extremely loud and clunky and generally ill mannered, but at least I haven't had to worry about spitting out gear teeth in the lil 7.5". Going to a posi and some new gears soon. Do you think the 24mm third gen rear sway bar will be a good compromise upgrade for a dd car?
I ran big SST Road race bar when this was taken.

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Originally Posted by TwoFast4Lv
I ran big SST Road race bar when this was taken.

That is a decent launch for a more "street" oriented rear sway bar but you can still see that driver's side is still lifting the tire higher than the passenger's side so it is still twisting the chassis up a bit. I would think you would still see a pretty good improvement going from your current rear sway bar to a good anti-roll bar.
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Old 11-02-2012, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by BMR Sales2
That is a decent launch for a more "street" oriented rear sway bar but you can still see that driver's side is still lifting the tire higher than the passenger's side so it is still twisting the chassis up a bit. I would think you would still see a pretty good improvement going from your current rear sway bar to a good anti-roll bar.
heres your xtreme bar in action car was running mid 1.3x's 60's this day off a 2500rpm footbrake all motor

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Originally Posted by BMR Sales2
That is a decent launch for a more "street" oriented rear sway bar but you can still see that driver's side is still lifting the tire higher than the passenger's side so it is still twisting the chassis up a bit. I would think you would still see a pretty good improvement going from your current rear sway bar to a good anti-roll bar.
Flip back a page or so and you will see my new bar That was only a 1.32 60
Old 11-02-2012, 05:02 PM
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Where can I find the SST rear sway bar? Googled it and found nothing, but Hellwig and some green ones called ST, but no SST.
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Not even sure if they are still around. I sold that one. I bought it back in 97 as a set
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Originally Posted by TwoFast4Lv
Not even sure if they are still around. I sold that one. I bought it back in 97 as a set
Do you remember the diameter of it? Did it attach with stock style endlinks or something stiffer?
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I want to say it was 22 or 24mm. Poly ES links. I dialed them in the way MADMAN told me to.

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My mark williams was a handful before i put a roll bar and a wishbone setup. Runs true now.
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Thanks for the pic Ellis. I'm going to try to get by with an 89 WS6 24mm rear bar and some tuning of the end links for preload for my 4th gens. This thread has gotten me thinking about a true race oriented bar for my 61. It has never had a rear sway bar of any kind.
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You bet! Brain told me to set it dead neutral with me in it. I just used washers for shims



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