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1.250" Front Sway Bar for 1967

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#1 ·
I'm looking for a solid 1 1/4" front sway bar to fit a 1967, I have a hollow 1.25" .156 wall bar on the car now but need something stiffer.
The car has the push rod TPC suspension under the back which works so good that the car lifts the inside front tire on sharper track corners causing an understeer condition.
I did some research and found out that the hollow bars have between 30 and 50 percent less twist strength than a solid bar of the same dia.
 
#2 · (Edited)
I have a solid 1967 1 1/8 " sway bar. I also have a set of Scott Drake adj. sway bar links. I'll sell as package.
email me jbasile@hotmail.com if you want to talk

The sway bar has less than 75 mi on it. It comes with poly bushings. It's a hellweig.
It's too much bar for my 289f
I also have the inboard headlight set up for your clone.
I'm willing to talk bundling.
J.
 
#4 ·
Thanks for the offer on the used parts but the car is complete to the extent that it has passed for the real thing many times, even with the experts and the real owners.
I have contacted many who consider them selves experts on suspension and all say that with a three link track bar suspension, which is what the TCP is that they run them with no rear sway bar but a big front bar. Since the post I have found that TCP does make a solid 1 1/4" bar so I"ll be probably be going with it.
The car does well, I just want it to do a little better.
Thanks for the feed back.
 

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#6 ·
I agree with the others as you do not need a larger front anti roll bar.

There are a number of ways to solve an under-steer issue.

1. Increase rear spring rate (increases rear roll stiffness)
2. Add rear anti roll bar (increases rear roll stiffness)

3. lower front spring rate (decrease front roll stiffness)
4. install smaller anti roll bar (decrease front roll stiffness)

You have to determine which of the 4 choices your car requires. If your car exhibits a good deal of weight transfer to the rear of the car during acceleration, then I would be increasing rear spring rate with the possible addition of a rear anti roll bar to fine tune how much under-steer/over-steer I desire.