<VV> Front sway bar hardware

[John Kepler]

Hold on there pardners... If GM used grade 5 and you upgrade to grade 8
you'll have to recalculate the proper bolt torque. 

That's why they invented Loctite. Also, you can find the torque correction
in ANY engineering manual, and a quick Google search turned up several
hundred tables of same!

  Also in the
future, when someone works on the front end, they're likely to tighten
according to the book, again getting us back to loosening bolts even if you
do it right this time. 

Spurious argument.....even if you're a "Shade-Tree Mechanic", if you see a
Grade 8 fastener, you should have enough sense to torque it to Grade 8
specs.

Strongly suggest replacing with identical hardware. It's good enough to last
40+ years and endure racing;

Not in ANY race car I ever built!  

 why mess with that?

Because I'm not trying to save a few pennies!

John