Internal sway bar... stupid or possible?

[PJL54Oval]

Would the rod need to be tempered or made from "sping" steel? I would think a shop that can make coils could fab up the rod.

[Panelfantastic]

Good point, did cross my mind. I was gonna ask the guys over at the local fab shop I use what they thought. They're not hot rodders like us but when it comes to deciding on use of metal and tolerences, they are slick! They always laugh at me because I waaaay over engineer everything... "is this for a bulldozer?"
For me, it can never be too strong!


Jeff-

[LLVWGL]

New beetles use this type of rear suspension member also. I think that it would work out great. keep us posted.

[73notch]

ya, type 3s use this on the upper control arms. since its basically a straight rod, i would think it would be easy to make bigger ones. but i havent had one all the way apart to see how hard it would be.

-Ryan

[marco the T.S.E]

it won't work,

the front leaf springs do 3 things.
1 .they hold the car up in a twisting action(you can aliminate the job by having coilovers holding the car) OK.
2 thay stop the tralingarms comming out of the beam.?!?
3 thay stop the tralingarms going into the beam.?!?
(the 4 rubber rings that are on the front beam are only there as grease seals! NOT suspention bushings!! if you remove the anchor point in the center of the beam the suspention will move everywere!!!!wear out the grease seals and smash the outer barrings!!!!
good luck.
P.S put the anti-rollbar on the outside.(so you can adjust it for going around corners ,setting up the car with the the driver in the car )

[darren]

Excuse my ignorance but how do you tune an anti roll bar?
Dont they just bolt on?

[73notch]

adjustable ones have a few holes on the ends that you can bolt the link that connects to the suspension arm, the further out, the more leverage and vice versa.