1971 Firebird Build ("The Other Woman", a.k.a. Project "T.O.W.")

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Unfortunately we are at a standstill at the moment. Eric had to travel to attend to some family business on short notice, so fab won't be done this week. I can share a few pictures of the progress though.

Here are some of the early shots of the sway bar arm mock up.





Apparently it took a lot of heat to get this shape:



This is how the bar itself is mounted: through the trunk. Delrin bushings go in the ends of the tube to center the bar and allow rotation:



Shot before the frame rail cuts:



These arm mount holes were too long, so after talking to Ron, we determined that using shorter holes on the arm was actually going to be better. Now we can get a more vertical angle for the links:



Some of Eric's handywork.



I don't have any more pictures of the torque arm since he started cutting it, but here you can see what we are after. Shortening the arm and making mounts to attach it to the bottom of the housing to allow rotation. We will get rid of the pinion mount plate and the 2 bars you see will control the pinion angle. We believe this should work well for us.



As part of this, Eric built new crossmembers for both the transmission and the torque arm mount. I don't have pictures, but I'll get some next week once we are back on it again.