I'm in the middle of putting a 12 bolt rear in my '70 Skylark that I hope someday will give me a 10 second time slip. I'm using stock upper control arms, that I will be boxing in soon and using solid bushings. The lowers are South Side Machine lift bars. I have air bags and a set of drag shocks on it too. I have 2 sway bars for the rear, one is a new stock sway bar and one is an after market 1" sway bar. Which one should I use? Is it better to go with the larger one? Thanks, Ken
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Bruce, That does look like a nice setup. I may go with something like that in the future. For now I'm going to have to go with what I have. Any idea which one of the ones I already have will work better? I guess probably the larger one but, I figured I would ask first. Thanks, Ken
I would use the smaller one for drags and the on inch on a handler. Make sure you shim the bar so it doesn't bind the arms up. Had that happen to me. Bruce
Check out some of the latest bars being used on full-bodied drag cars. Admittedly these are pretty much strip only units but it does show that big bars can help tremendously with the uneven lift (front) and squat (rear) that our A bodies tend to do under large amounts of torque. The actual anti-sway bar runs horizontially between the rear down-tubes of the roll bar located in the trunk area, with long links that connect near the end of the axle tubes. One of the big three car rags had an article that talked aobut them. I believe it might even be Dick Miller that is building these systems. I'd say this, since stock type A-body rear bars are more or less four bolts and nuts on and off, try both bars and see which one works best. If it was me, I'd go with the small bar first, then the bigger one. That way, you won't have to swap back to the bigger bar. :laugh: Personally, I like the bigger ones because I like to turn corners too. By the way, you said you have two air bags? Why two rather than just having one on the passenger side?
