[Tigers] Tiger Rear Sway bar

[Michael Wood]

I think what you're suggesting would work better than trying to replicate the stock set up. Mike


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From: steve wick <srwick at hotmail.com>
To: jbbrown1980 at gmail.com <jbbrown1980 at gmail.com>; Michael Wood <mwood24020 at aol.com>
Cc: tigers at autox.team.net <tigers at autox.team.net>; MTaylor at ea.com <MTaylor at ea.com>
Sent: Thu, Sep 30, 2021 2:00 pm
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger Rear Sway bar

#yiv2295268496 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}I've emailed Tom in the past, and he does make a nice kit. My car had the "typical" ripped frame rail in addition to the parts being missing. Without knowing about Tom's kit in 2008, what I did was make a plate with coupling nuts welded to the surface of it in the proper locations, opened up the hole in the inner frame rail a little more and welded the plate to the inside of the outer frame half. I then made a flat plate with holes that fit over, but flush with the end of the coupling nuts and butt welded that to the inner frame rail half and the outside circumference of the coupling nuts. It looks like an undamaged flat frame section with threaded bosses for the panhard bar bracket bolts to go into, but is reinforced and connected to both sides of the frame rail. That's why I was looking for just the bracket and bar, but either I was unaware of or had forgotten about the angle/alignment issue. It sounds like what I should just do at this point is put my car up on the lift and custom build a bracket and bar, located so the bar is parallel with the ground and not at an angle.
Steve
From: Michael Wood <mwood24020 at aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 9:01 AM
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Cc: tigers at autox.team.net <tigers at autox.team.net>; MTaylor at ea.com <MTaylor at ea.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger Rear Sway bar If you guys are going to put Panhard bars back on, I'd suggest getting one of Tom Hall's kits which helps with the bar angle and addresses mount area issues. 
tigerengineering.net
Mike



-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Brown <jbbrown1980 at gmail.com>
To: steve wick <srwick at hotmail.com>
Cc: Michael Wood <mwood24020 at aol.com>; tigers at autox.team.net <tigers at autox.team.net>; Taylor, Matthew <MTaylor at ea.com>
Sent: Thu, Sep 30, 2021 8:55 am
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger Rear Sway bar

I would also like pictures or drawings.
Thanks,Joe Brown
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 9:50 AM steve wick via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

On a slightly different note, my Tiger is missing the panhard bar and mounting bracket. I've looked off and on for several years and never found one. I know I can get a reinforced bracket that welds in, but don't run my car hard and prefer "factory". If anyone has a bar and bracket laying around and wants to sell, or if I could get pictures and measurements of both so I could replicate them, please email me off list. I have a Mk1 with the bracket on the right side. Thanks guys.
Steve
From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Taylor, Matthew via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 7:07 AM
To: Michael Wood <mwood24020 at aol.com>;tigers at autox.team.net <tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger Rear Sway bar 
I don’t know about “total grip capability,” but you have seen my dad drive his Tiger with the rear sway bar and it works great.  I’ve driven and autocrossed Tigers that are set up properly with or without the rear sway bar and they both handle great but different.  A good driver can adjust to the differences and take advantages of the differences, but I doubt one is much faster than the other.  It’s possible that one could be faster than the other depending on the type of course, but it would be fractions of a second based on my autocross experiences.

 

Matthew

 

From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net>On Behalf Of Michael Wood via Tigers
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 6:28 PM
To: tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger Rear Sway bar

 

Like said, any rear bar on a Tiger is an aftermarket solution...and I've yet to see one (not counting custom fabricated with heim joints, correct angles, adjustability etc used in conjunction with front end improvements) that made any sense or was additive to total grip capability. 

 

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Martin via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net>
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Sent: Wed, Sep 29, 2021 1:54 pm
Subject: [Tigers] Tiger Rear Sway bar

Was a rear sway bar originally fitted on the Tiger or was it a LAT option or not?  Size, mounting points? Either way could someone post some pictures of how they were suppose to be mounted and installed?

 

Thanks

 

Joel Martin

 
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