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Project '67 454
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Rear Sway Bar
Different people are using various junkyard rear bars on our trucks. Does anyone know of any bars that are readily available off any late model vehicles that fit well on a coil spring rear end?
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Eat My Rust
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Third gen Camaros and Firebird
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Project '67 454
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Thanks for the input. I picked up the rear sway bar complete with brackets and bushings from a junk yard for 25 bucks, new Energy Suspension end links from Advance Auto Parts for 19 bucks, 5 bucks worth of nuts and bolts, and some cleaning and painting for a grand total of "49 DOLLARS". The diameter of the bar is .82". Here are some pictures of the sway bar installed.
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Bar looks cool. Good job. Is it a Camaro bar or something else?
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Project '67 454
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Thanks, It's from a Late 80's Camaro,
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Middle-aged Curmudgeon
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Nice job. Good looking install and thanks for the pictures.
Question to you guys who have done the Camaro bar (or any bar for that matter)-- is it important where the bar is mounted? I've seen pictures of ones mounted to the trailing arms like mrh33916 did, as well as setups where they were mounted to the axle. How do these differing setups effect the ride quality and/or rear stability and/or body lean?
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
I'm not being a smart a** but I'm wondering why you decided to install a rear sway bar and what you hope to get out of it. Not a lot of guys put these on their trucks and in fact the guys at Early Classic Enterprises dont recommend or sell a rear sway bar for our trucks. With that being said I did install afront sway bar on my truck and noticed a difference in handling and feel in the first 100 feet after I installed it.
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Great looking install!! Couple questions though. Where did the brackets on the side of the frame come from and did you have to drill the holes in the trailing arms or are they already there?
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
I couldn't really tell that it helped it any until I drove it through some pretty good curvse at a good speed. That's what it helps with. I for one have a old back road I take to work that has a couple of nice curvse on it and it made the truck feel a lot better in the middle of them than before with out it. Mine is a Camaro bar also.
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
I bought both of mine from CPP and the truck fells 100% better specially during lane changing at highway speeds and turning..
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
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Is your truck lowered?
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Yes it is.....3 inches in the front 5 in the rear...
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Cool looking truck. I am planning a 3 1/2 front and 5 rear drop for my truck and now I know the rear bar works I guess I'll have to get one for my truck.
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Hey big al, I got that same kit but haven't put it on yet. Curious why you didn't but it on top of the trailing arms? That way it wouldn't be hanging as low to catch stuff right?
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
I have one too. Have been wondering if mounting on top of trailing arms matters or not. I think that I would like it on top. But instructions show mounted on bottom. Any suggestions.
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
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I would be curious which is better out of the ones that mount to the arms and the ones that mount to the rear end. Anyone?
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
if my memory serves me right it said to install it the way I did.... now it is long gone as I upgraded my rear trailing arms and I was not going to drill them now the truck handles even better than it did..
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
All three are mounted different. Always wondered where the OEM placement is.....
mrh that looks mint...is that OEM bar>?
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Was there an OEM placement?
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
I've seen Andy state a few times that there was an OE bar for 1-tons, which would be a leaf spring rear. Don't believe there was ever a coil spring rear bar. I'm curious to know how the OE bar laid in there.
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
Me too! Andyu to the rescue
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
I'm interested in this as 80's camaros are relatively plentiful in American car terms over this side of the atlantic so theres always some around getting broken for parts. Exactly what models would I be looking for and what years? What parts exactly do I need? I'm happy fabricating brackets if I need to. We have lots of what I think you guys call Traffic Circles (we call em roundabouts) here in the UK so anything that will help the handling would be good. I've got the largest stock front bar (came off an 80's camper) with lowered brackets and poly bushes from ECE. Flipping thing is hugely thick and weighed a ton, well it felt like it after I carried it about a mile back to the car when I collected it from a guy at a big car show!
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Re: Rear Sway Bar
phil, a lot of times, the brackets that you need are on the camaro or firebird. just make sure you get everything that would mount it to the truck. you want to look for either an IROC, Z28, or TA, anything from '82 on up. these have the bigger rear sway bar. I've got a '95 TA WS6 bar on mine.
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