swaybar question with 11 3/4 brakes
Soooo....if you got (say) TWO sets of LCAs that don't have tabs, you can gt a bar with brackets that use the lower shock mount bolt as a mounting point, but will rub on the tires? I'll be running scarebirds on the 9" spindles with a 15X6 wheel and (probably) a 215 tire
I don't know the size of the Scarebird calipers or rotors, but I just finished reengineering my very old Addco setup, and the clearances were very tight in several places. Description follows:
1967 Barracuda, factory K-H disk brakes, .890 t-bars, manual steering, slightly lowered ride height (1/2"?), 14 x 5.5 SBP rally wheels, 215/70-14 Firestone Firehawk Indy 500 tires. End link mounts to lower shock bolt.
Clearance from tire inner sidewall to sway bar at full lock: 5/16" per side (or less)
Clearance from inner rim to caliper, horizontal: about 3/16"
Clearance from control strut to end link, with standard Addco hardware: 1/8" or less, depending on ride height (I replaced the entire end link setup with my own system using 7/16" rod ends instead of bushings, and gained some clearance here).
My conclusion was that I could not mount any rim + tire combination that had more than the factory backspace (of these SBP rally wheels). A 15" rim would clear the caliper, but I'd still have the sway bar in the way. A 14x6" rim with factory offset would definitely not clear either the caliper or the sway bar.
And we know that the lower front corner of the wheel well is a limiting factor to the outside width of a front tire on the Barracuda (so you can't necessarily go to a wider rim with the exact same backspace). Other A-bodies may be different. Other sway bars are definitely different -- this is one place where it might pay to shop around.
