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    So, let's take some 1/8" 1.5" angle and some 3/4" 0.120 4130 chromoly tubing, also four 12mm bolts with nuts.

    If we cut four pieces of angle & drill some holes so that we can bolt pieces together:



    Weld two of these angles to the torsion beam



    We can than weld the tubing between the other two angles - and call it a sway bar. I hope we can,





    Still need to paint this orange.
    rusEfi - DIY ECU
    93 EFI: tach cluster, aspire mirrors & spindles. ZX2 master cylinder, BP+G25 swap with a door hinge, rio struts. 205/50r15, 140mph speedometer,rear disk brakes, mini cooper + subaru front brakes rear sway bar

  • #2
    Pretty cool and simple.

    If you want to absolutely kill any sort of sway, flip it around. haha
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    • #3
      Very nice!


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      • #4
        Clever design man, looks good. I bet you could add a second bar across the mounts in between the two mounting bolts if you felt that you needed more stability. Does it unbolt nicely?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by invader_star View Post
          Clever design man, looks good. I bet you could add a second bar across the mounts in between the two mounting bolts if you felt that you needed more stability. Does it unbolt nicely?
          Unbolts as a charm,

          Not sure if a bar not along the beam would work - it is probably variable distance between the points as soon as you are not on the beam, and steel would not work on stretching I guess. Anyway, this is quite thick quite fancy steel - it should be good enough.

          If we decide to go super-fancy we will have a couple of them of different specs so that we can switch between them but that probably would not happen
          rusEfi - DIY ECU
          93 EFI: tach cluster, aspire mirrors & spindles. ZX2 master cylinder, BP+G25 swap with a door hinge, rio struts. 205/50r15, 140mph speedometer,rear disk brakes, mini cooper + subaru front brakes rear sway bar

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          • #6
            PS: if you are looking to do something like that, do not forget to make an offset between the brackets while drilling the holes - like 1/4 of an inch would be taken by the weld body. so for the brackets to be bolted tightly you need the bolted bracket to be 1/4 lower than the welded bracket. You can probably see how I had to grid the weld a bit on one of the pictures to make space for the bolted bracket.
            rusEfi - DIY ECU
            93 EFI: tach cluster, aspire mirrors & spindles. ZX2 master cylinder, BP+G25 swap with a door hinge, rio struts. 205/50r15, 140mph speedometer,rear disk brakes, mini cooper + subaru front brakes rear sway bar

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