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Old 09-11-2014, 08:53 AM
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Ok so as you know (I'll explain) my car was a race car it's whole life. So I didn't have a sway bar on the front and rear. Now that I have the front sway bar I see and feel a difference.so what I wanted to know is will I feel much a difference with a rear sway bar? Or do you guys not run a rear sway bar for the street?
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Old 09-11-2014, 09:06 AM
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I installed a rear sway bar on mine a couple of years ago and I real feel the difference in cornering as it help the body roll that is common with older American cars. It also helped in reducing the wheel hop from 4000 RPM Hole shots.
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Old 09-11-2014, 01:02 PM
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Box the lower arms and install a sway bar, you'll see an improvement.
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I generally install a rear sway bar on all my Chevelles...including the recently purchased Sprint. A stock 7/8" bar works just fine.
FYI...if you want to go bigger in the front...the 2nd gen Z28 and T/A front sway bars are a direct bolt in...usually available 1 1/8 or 1 1/4" diameter and found cheap.
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ok so its an old picture but the only one i have of my rear that shows my control arms is that a boxed control arm that you are talking about?
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Old 09-11-2014, 09:46 PM
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Those look like old South Side Machine lift bars.
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ok so its an old picture but the only one i have of my rear that shows my control arms is that a boxed control arm that you are talking about?
I have never seen anything like that before...but they are boxed.
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Those look like old South Side Machine lift bars.
I agree.
Same as what UMI offers...
http://umiperformance.com/catalog/in...products_id=30
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I had the SMM lift bars on mine when I bought it. Those look similar from what I can see. Switching to stock boxed arms with rubber bushings sure improved the ride quality. With the SSMs on you felt every little bump. The bushings in the SSMs had no give at all and with a 4 link system something needs to give to allow the rear wheels to move some what independently. They're not independent but with the SSMs a bump on one side was transmitted directly to the other side.
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ok so educate me a little here. I can't go back to the stock style control arms? am i ok with the current setup?
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