rear sway bar recommendations

72bluNblu said
I ran 1.12" torsion bars in my Challenger for 70k+ street miles with 275/40/17's on all 4 corners. NO subframe connectors, NO torque boxes, NO cage. No chassis reinforcements of any kind. In fact, that car had significant structural issues -it had holes in the floor boards, rust in the frame rails, rust in the hard top structure, well, you name it, that car has rust in it. A Utah car that went to Florida before I got it, so rust from the bottom up and the top down. A flexy flyer for sure, but, it never let me down and it certainly never folded up despite the rust damage. It wasn't ideal by any means and I don't recommend it, but, it never failed.

So no, large torsion bars and large sticky tires are not going to destroy the unibody. Is it better to do some chassis reinforcements? Absolutely. But suggesting these cars can't handle wheel rates higher than factory BB bars is just asinine. Clearly shows your lack of experience with that kind of set up.

How about you just admit you've never run an A-body with 1"+ torsion bars and front and rear aftermarket sway bars and leave it at that? You've got no clue how a Mopar equipped like that will perform or hold up, because you haven't done it.

like you, i've logged thousands upon thousands of street miles with heavy bars and nary a complaint (save for the ride quality).

i daily drove my 64 dart with .990's, 1.250 quickor bar up front and a 3/4" firm feel bar out back and only home made torque boxes up front. that car saw regular abuse in the canyons, autoX and buttonwillow's big track. the weapon of choice tire wise was the newly released falken azenis in 205/50-15 a short unit featuring a robust carcass with an ultra stiff sidewall. i'd have to chase interior and tail light screws back in once a week, but the doors on that thing still closed like it was brand new.

the 69 barracuda has rocked 920 bars and a big front bar since 1998 or there abouts and despite making the trip across the united states three times as well as to the end of the road in alaska and back down to tres arcos in baja-- it has yet to taco itself.

there will always be some bumptious gray beard blathering on about the dire consequenses of doing things "the wrong way" because they heard or did something 40 years ago that was total nonsense and they've just regurgitated it so many times it's become gospel to them. these are the people that equate to having been in the hobby a long time as considerable experience and typically are the type to conduct them selves with blinders on; not only refusing to learn but also refusing to acknowledge that things like tire technology has changed massively in the last 20 years, or possibly see another point of view. it's sad really, to be trapped in a pardigm of your own making and be that uncurious about, well, everything.