rear sway bar recommendations

72bluNblu said
Thanks! Yes, it's a blast to drive. My dad built it for vintage racing, but never ended up doing it. He had built the Healey to be my car right after I was born, was gonna put a more stock engine and running gear in it before he gave it to me but I ended up with it in full vintage race trim. Put it back on the road as soon as I got my license, drove it all through high school and most of college. Put tens of thousands of miles on it as a daily. Made plenty of 8+ hour trips to SoCal and back in it. I mostly just did autoX's at Healey meets. I drove it all the way to Silver Star British Columbia for a meet once, about 1,100 miles one way. AutoX'd it there, then drove it back.

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.

I have had many and repaired many and yes I have had both bars on several. What you are failing to consider is your pansy *** horse power engines probably don't have enough torque off of a turn to twist tin foil. A rusted mess like your wouldn't last a day with one of my engines.

And I guess US car makes all the bracing and sells many because they look nice.

And you of all people , Mr. suspension? sticks all his money into rusted junk . With all that rust you think your money would be better spent on structure.
We don't limit our builds to sway bars. We put complete chassis together. This was a rust free 4 speed car that my small block would have dish ragged.

My son Just built a 6.4 Hemi 66 coronet 1150 to the tire . If you all wouldn't be so vindictive on this site he would probably post on here , He is a member. He thinks many of you treat others like *** holes. No real discussions just just condescending comments to lift yourself on pedestals looking down on what you don't have or know.

I myself love it, and like the way you contradict yourselves many times. Do I know it all ? No I don't. But a hell of a lot more then you critics. Members on this site buy a lot of parts from me and come to our shops. Many of them think you are fools. Including some of the staff.

He could post a picture book on here and you would all be amazed what we do in our combined shops. Only to be criticized by the left coast. Steve said its not worth his time of day.