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Evan Smith wrote a really nice article in National Dragster about sway bars, but are there other ways to make a car do the same thing. Weight preload, shock settings, shortening the passenger side upper bar on a 4 link, spring rates. Or, are each of these items doing something different than the sway bar accomplishes. One time, my Super Bee was picking up the left rear quarter a considerable amount, but the right rear was doing nothing. I had all of the clamps off the right, but no lift. Finally, I started clamping the left, just to calm it down. It did, but it also started lifting the right. I had no idea that the torque would transfer to the other side of the car. Last question in all of this: Is a sway bar even an allowable addition to a Stock Eliminator car?
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I have seen them on cars that never came with them.
I even saw at Indy a few year ago an A Body Mopar with the front sway bar installed on the rear axle! I discussed it with the gentleman and he said the rule did not say where sway bar could be placed
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Great point but it also did not say he could move to rear! That’s what the Tech guys answer would be.
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yes I read article also, building 1975 mopar b body M/AS was going to leave factory rear bar and make adjustable links
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Suspension, Rear "Sway bar(s) optional" I seem to remember that a couple of years ago the Tech Dept. came out with some kind of a ruling that a "sway bar" or an "anti-roll bar" from the aftermarket couldn't be "welded in" but had to be "bolted in" a Stocker.
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S&W made a roll bar kit for 3rd gen Camaro a lot like what is used in 4 link suspension installed above the axle housing with torque tube mounted to the body with adjustable links which drop down to the axle housing.
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