[Tigers] Rear Sway Bar

[jim]

My car came with a home made 1 1/8” front bar so understeered a lot!  I got
an addco rear bar but couldn’t figure out how to mount it so I made my own

mounted in front of the rear end and welded a couple tabs on the side of the
plate that the u-bolts go through to hold the lower links. The brackets that
I made are very strong  ( 6-3/8” bolts per side) and you’d have to rip the
car apart before they would let go!  The calculations say it’s only giving
me about 75 lbs./inch with 12” arms and a 34”  ¾” solid bar. It makes quite
a difference which between the 3  adjustment holes though. I got the bar.
arms etc. from Speedway Engineering ( $200 ) and it was pretty reasonable
actually
 biggest job was to make the brackets!

On another note, I have the ‘Stock’ mounting for my panhard rod 
I’m not
sure if it’s causing this ( I think likely ) but I notice in hard cornering
that the car will understeer some on left turns and oversteer on right turns
!! Anyone else notice that effect ? I have quite a bit of ‘ackerman’
correction in the front suspension also



Jim

B382000446

 

 

 

From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of daniel doornbos
via Tigers
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 10:24 AM
To: tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: [Tigers] Rear Sway Bar

 

I couldn't find an aftermarket rear sway bar for the Tiger I liked.  And I
looked at the DIY weld kits.  But after reading and finding that bending and
welding impact metal spring rate and you should temper the bar post
fabrication to get it to work correctly.  For the rear end and space I
needed to put in bends around the pumpkin and linkages.    

 

I do recognize that welded options will also work well.  My Mustang II front
end from Mike H has a welded bar.  But for the rear packaging, I needed too
many bends and couldn't locate a straight bar type in the space.   In the
end, I went with a custom-built from  <https://www.carolinaswaybar.com/>
https://www.carolinaswaybar.com/ It was a premium price but they were great
to work with. 

 

Maybe in the next decade I'll get enough motivation to finish and drive the
car to see how good my choices were.

 

dan


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