440 Swap Steering and Front Suspension Rebuild

Mpacker said

Awesome. What kind of Frankenstein sway bar set up is possible with that setup? I've seen things about mounting calipers on the rear to accomplish it, but I swear I read some posts about that not being safe too. I guess until this thread, I was under the impression that 73+ LCA's were different than 68-72 which also factored into my confusion on the sway bar.

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If you’re using a QA1 K frame you’ll have to use the QA1 sway bar.

There’s nothing “unsafe” about mounting the calipers to the rear on the 67-72 cars when you do the 73+ brake conversion. You just need to make sure you swap the spindles side for side so the caliper bleeders are on top. You’ll also need slightly longer brake hoses, ‘68 camaro disk hoses work great.

67-72 and 73-76 LCA’s are the same except for the location of the sway bar tabs. So, non sway bar LCA’s are the same 67-76. If they have factory tabs, then the mounting tab location is different 67-72 vs 73+.

But if you’re using a QA1 K you’ll need their sway bar. If you use stock LCA’s they’ll need to be the non-tabbed version and you’ll need to add your own sway bar end link mounting tabs. The later 73+ tab locations for the factory LCA’s might work, the 67-72 sway bar tab location will not.