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Bending My Swaybar...



Quick question here - are all you motor mounts good?

If not this could be part of the problem.

Easier to buy the better sway bar than trying to bend one

Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler P." <ty@festf.org>
To: "List (E-mail)" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: Bending My Swaybar...


> Hey all, I got my header and new exhaust system put on the roc this
weekend
> (thanks Dave!) but one problem has cropped up.  My front sway bar no
longer
> fits on the car.  Where the bend is in the middle regions of the sway bar
is
> not big enough and it touches my header.  I got the two ends bolted down
on
> the A frames and got the driverside bolted down but the passenger side of
> will not bolt down.  So right now I have 3 out of 4 mounting points
secured.
> 1 option is to put my jack under the sway bar and jack it up into
position,
> this would work but it would put a lot of stress on my header I would
think
> and I'd probably start burning gaskets.  Another option is to bend my
> swaybar a little more and move the rubber bushings accordingly, but I
don't
> know what this would do for the structural integrity of the swaybar.  My
> last option, my favorite, is to buy a bigger and beefier sway bar for the
> front, the only problem here is I don't know if the bigger sway bars would
> give any more clearance.  Could somebody on here let me know if they have
> more clearance than stock or not?  Thanks!
>
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