Rear Sway Bar Info from Randy Agee
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Topic: Rear Sway Bar Info from Randy Agee
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Subject: Rear Sway Bar Info from Randy Agee
Date Posted: 22 August 2010 at 8:43pm
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Link is not copying right, so here is the page to go to.
http://fierozone.tripod.com/weekend/swaybar/index.html - http://fierozone.tripod.com/weekend/swaybar/index.html ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 23 August 2010 at 7:58pm
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Gnarley. Thanks for this David, might get started at work tomorrow if I'm feeling enthusiastic at all... ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Dawg
Date Posted: 23 August 2010 at 8:23pm
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I'm not sure I like the way he did his. Look closely at the pictures and it appears as though the end link is hanging WAY lower than it needs to. If it was me, I would find a way to tuck things up more. Other than that, it's really something I should get to doing on our car. DG ------------- You dream it up....I'll make it |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 23 August 2010 at 8:42pm
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Sorry I have not been feeling well the last couple days or I would have caught that. Yes when I did the rear bar install I skipped the spacer tube all together and just stacked 2 bushings spaced by one washer in the back and it worked fine. Kept the end links up high.
Its too there is no way to do it like on the 88 cradle, where the bar mounts above the cradle instead of below it. Trust me I have tried to figure a way to do it above, however it would require a totally custom made bar which defeats the whole idea of keeping it cheap and easy. ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 10:28am
A lot of fellows at Pennock's have mounted the bar so that the bow is to the front of the cradle, as is done with the aftermarket bar. There are certain advantages to mounting the bar in this manner. Clearing the exhaust is done I believe by simply putting relatively thin spacers between the brackets for the bow and where they mount. I'd like to hear in this thread from club members who've done this front to rear sway bar relocation and find out which way they've mounted it... bow of the bar to the front, or bow of the bar to the back? This is a great mod we should all be doing to our Fieros. Makes quite a difference with the handling. And it's cheap as well! Possibly this could be yet another idea for a tech day session. Just line up all the Fieros and do them in an assembly line fashion.
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Randy T. Agee wrote:
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 10:52am
It was all those G-forces on the Sea to Sky highway! Hope you're feeling better soon.
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Posted By: Car-2-Lo
Date Posted: 24 August 2010 at 10:55am
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Old thread on my sway-bar installed by Clynt...
http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=285&PN=11 - http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=285 &PN=11 Blair did it this way after the 3800SC swap... It sits higher up now,( Clynt's also now does it higher up) 
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Posted By: Car-2-Lo
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 7:30am
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Another old thread on sway bar by Blair... http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=106&PN=13 - http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=106 &PN=13 |
Posted By: Dawg
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 9:07am
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The Blair method looks tidy. Removes the possibility of an emergency brake however. DG ------------- You dream it up....I'll make it |
Posted By: Car-2-Lo
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 9:19am
That was way back in '07, he does it now with E-Brake just like mine 
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Posted By: grokan
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 12:56pm
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I mounted mine the same way David and John did, and to raise the
end links I just got ride of the spacer tube ( as David did) |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 4:45pm
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Wait a tick... So if one does it as is written on the site, they sacrifice their e-brake? ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 5:10pm
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Nope just use mushroom head bolts with the threads coming down rather than going up. You may need to remove the E-Brake cables though to initially install the bolts. ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |