<VV> Sway Bars

Kent Sullivan kentsu at corvairkid.com
Thu Mar 2 11:20:55 EST 2006


I have a set of Bob's tubular bars on my '66 500 coupe. Ken Hand can comment
on what it was like to drive at PIR... My car is a street-driven car but Ken
was reasonably impressed by its behavior on the track. 

--Kent
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[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Sethracer at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:03 AM
To: AeroNed at aol.com; VirtualVairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Sway Bars

 
In a message dated 3/2/2006 6:32:20 AM Pacific Standard Time,
aeroned at aol.com writes:

Jaff  Rapp makes a rear bar in several diameters (icmindy at iquest.net). I
have one  that will be going on my autocross car (soon I hope). I believe
that Bob  Coffin (dryenko at surry.net) has both front and rear  bars.





Last Summer I installed one of Bob Coffins front bars and one of Jeff
Rapp's rear bars (Jeff is really "Indy Custom Machine" the E-mail above) The
end mounts for Bob's bar is a ingenious dual rod end setup, light years
ahead of the  Crown/IECO design. Jeff's rear bar is also way ahead of the
old Crown/ADDCO set-up. It involves mounting a multi-drilled piece to the
trailing arm, either  welding or bolting them on. The bar has a blade design
for the ends, also with  several holes. The linkage is rod-end to rod-end
and allows adjustment. 
The  theory is that the front bar is installed at one fixed setting and the
rear bar  can be adjusted to give the car the best balance. The rear bar can
also be  used to tune the handling for Street or Track or Autocross. A bit
of Understeer being okay for the street -  Neutral for the track and a  bit
of Oversteer for the autocross, helping the car to turn in. Both bars  were
pretty easy to install, the body mounts being closely akin to the
Crown/IECO designs. I added Urethane inserts at the retention clamps,
matching  the diameter of the bars.  Like in the Crown set-up, I suggest
that you  have the car aligned and sitting at road height when you measure
and  install the links to the suspension. The position of the arms will be
quite  different at full droop. - Seth Emerson
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