1.03 PST Torsion Bars

superdve said
Since we are building a car with a few engineers in the house, (slows things down!), I will share our experience with the PST 1.03's for you Peter. In our application, (inline 6 with an aluminum alloy head, no installed fluids, or hood, we had to set the adjustment screws ALL THE WAY IN to stay about 3 mm to 4.1 mm, (1/8" to 3/16"), off the LCA bump stops. If we were going for the slammed, bagged look this might have been OK but to not have ANY adjustment left AT ALL for a car at full weight with fluids or settled bars resulted in the 1.03's to be completely unacceptable for our application.

We ended up calling Dick at Firm Feel for the correct 1.06 torsion bars with approximately 15 degrees of offset.

While I'm sure some folks feel OK living with a zero offset bar and a buried adjustment setting we do not.

PST: Fix the offset issue, do a little PPAP, and you should have a product that works.

I would LOVE to hear from successful 1.03 PST users myself and see a picture of their adjustment screws.

Well I would like to make it known so that there is no confusion here. The issue that GMachineDartGT and superdve are having is one in the same "issue". The torsion bars in question were purchased on our website and billed to GMachineDartGT and shipped to superdve for the project car that they are working on together. I believe this post came about because of the issue that superdve had installing our bars. Superdve then wanted to return them for refund. We said that we would take back the bars as long as they were in resalable condition. Unfortunately the bars came back with nicks in them and were deemed unsalable. When this was explained to superdve, his repsonse was he would spread his displeasure among the forums, which he is allowed to do to freely.

As I have said in previous posts we have sold a tremendous amount of these bars over the years. (54 sets last year alone and 13 so far this year)

Thanks
James