Need some brainy cromo bar help.

[Kmelander]

Rear sway bars seem to be somewhat rejected by the majority of people I’ve interacted with on this site which seems plausible to me. If memory serves, good front bars are necessary, too much in the rear, and the car suffers, in corners. Straight line work, and it’s a different game, if you are struggling to put the power down and go straight. What’s interesting is how prolific they are on race cars, at least pictures I’ve seen of race cars. The guy that welded up the housing ends on my rear axle seemed to think I would never twist a 1” cromo bar and heat treating was a waste. His gig was drag, and he has many years of experience, so he said. My control arms are quite long so that minimizes the effect as well. I fabricated mine to avoid the $400+ price tag on a modular system. At this point, I’m just going to finish welding it up, hook it up and see how it works. Worst case, I hate it or twist it (hopefully that’s worst case) and it gets removed or replaced. At least I have the provision for it built in to my set-up. In time (a while out) I’ll update this post to let everyone know where it went, and how it worked. If I had to make a prediction, it will be disconnected on the street and for road courses and possibly hooked up for any 1/8 mile work, just to see if it makes a difference. My car isn’t going to be a monster so there’s a good chance it’s going to be insignificant either way. It would be cool to put a GoPro under there with one of the links disconnected to see what kind of input it would be getting.

Thanks for all the input.


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