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UPDATE:

While my homemade rear sway bar seemed to work and hadn't failed (yet) I stumbled upon a REAL rear sway bar on facebook market. I was also able to score a 3/4" front sway bar but I am going to wait to install it. I want to see how the Rear Sway bar works with the stock front sway bar.



-Nick-

nbuscemi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 11:14 am UPDATE:

While my homemade rear sway bar seemed to work and hadn't failed (yet) I stumbled upon a REAL rear sway bar on facebook market. I was also able to score a 3/4" front sway bar but I am going to wait to install it. I want to see how the Rear Sway bar works with the stock front sway bar.



-Nick-

Nick, there is a rough looking hole with tubing or wiring going through it I am not sure about. Is it in the trans mount by the trailing arm pivot? If so, it needs some very good doubling up and getting rid of the rough flanges as the trans mount take a lot of loading and the hole could cause the mount to fail.

If it isn't on the trans mounts, sorry but the rough hole still needs to be fixed.

Just trying to be careful.

Lee

I got thinking about some more, so I decided to look at it closer. I think I saw more than was there. It looks to be OK, or it was an optical illusion due to the size of the pix.

Lee

Not really sure what you are looking at in the zoomed in picture. I think what you are seeing is whats left of the factory fuel line lining up with the parking brake cable (white plastic clip hanging on it). If so, then yes, just an illusion.

-Nick-

nbuscemi wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:01 am Not really sure what you are looking at in the zoomed in picture. I think what you are seeing is whats left of the factory fuel line lining up with the parking brake cable (white plastic clip hanging on it). If so, then yes, just an illusion.

-Nick-

It was seeing this area at a different angle along with the fuel line coming into the same area at a different angle that got my attention.

Carry on, lookin' good!

Lee

Update on how this sway bar effected handling please! I just added a 944 bar to my Buggy but haven't driven it yet.

Interesting side quest...

I noticed red plastic fragments under the rear of my car the other day...


Turns out it was one of my rear sway bar bushings. I know I could have replaced them with Energy Suspension bushings and called it done, but what is the fun in that? So I decided to 3D print new ones with TPU. Long term testing is needed to see if they hold up. If you want to take part in this experiment I will include a link to Printables where you can get the STL file.



https://www.printables.com/model/837251 ... r-bushings

-Nick-

Any updates on the TPU-bushings? Did you print them with 100% infill?

Edit: Nevermind the infill question. I just saw on printables that you used 75%