Hellwig Hollow sway bars

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Mr.FT

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Just looking into front and rear sway bars for my Demon and needed some feedback. Has anyone tried these? any thoughts ?

Thanks
 
I put the front on my 67 barracuda last fall, I say a great diffrence right away, Now 1 week ago I added the rear and before I got out of driveway I could tell a diffrence in the car. I was happy with them.
 
I have the frt and rear on my 69 B'cuda. Quality parts,good hardware and customer service. You won't be sorry!
 
I am also interested in Hellwig and hotchkiss and wonder if they are worth the money. What advantages is there to a hollow bar with the same outer diameter? Is it stiffer material?
Were you guys running sway bars prior to installing these?
If so what were they and was the hardware the same? Like end links, polyurethane vs stock rubber?

Going from no rear bar to adding a rear bar will make a difference regardless of brand. I experienced that on an ebody by just adding a factory rear bar.
 
We're contemplating the Hellwig for the front of our '76 valiant... did not have factory sway bar... am I correct in thinking, from pics I've seen of the Hellwig kit that it comes with brackets/tabs to mount the bar? Not a problem if some fabrication/drilling is req'd, but don't really want to change lower control arms unless I have to... thx!
 
Dave@Hellwig is a member here and was very helpful answering questions I had about their products. Yes, you will get everything you need to install the bar even if your car had no factory bar! Great products!!
 
mopar440 82 - If you don't have the tabs on the control arms its not an issue. We supply bolt on brackets that can be installed after you drill a hole in your lower control arms. The brackets to mount to the K-member are included as well. We beef them up to 3/8" thick spring steel to keep deflection to a minimum.
 
Dave, I already have tabs on my 71 Demon 340. Will your bar use the factory tabs? I am trying to retain as much originality as I can. Thanks!

Tom
 
I put one on my '73 last year.
The car had none and was downright dangerous to drive around corners on wet roads.
At first I decided to modify an earlier swaybar for my car, but the hassle quickly outweighed the costs and ease of installation of a new one.


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BigBlockMopar, I've got one of those in my shop right now that's just like yours but it's for a customer's '05 Magnum he's building for SEMA. My Cuda has Addco bars which are very nice, but comparing them to my customer's is like waffles and pancakes.

After seeing it for myself, I'd never hesitate to buy them for my own car. It looks to be extremely well made, is a lot heavier than I expected it to be (there's no way it's hollow), and has a very nice silver vein coating job on it from the factory ... so nice, in fact, that I can almost use it as is for the candy blue my customer has in mind for his tubular k-member and suspension parts.

Speaking of which ... my alarm's going off. Back to the shop. :-D Buy 'em!!!
 
FYI: The concept behind the hollow bar is lighter weight, pure and simple. The stiffness is based on the diameter, whether it's hollow or solid (also affected by the material, of course), but all things considered, you can make the bar lighter by making it hollow, even if the diameter increases slightly.

By the time you get up to 1-1/8" diameter (typical front bar), as a solid piece it's pretty darn hefty to be hanging off the very front of the chassis (not where you want it for weight distribution, or polar moment of inertia).
 
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