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New Sway-bar, Can i not put any bends in a sway bar?; is having a completely straight sway-bar acceptable
Topic Started: Feb 2 2016, 10:03 AM (700 Views)
GeoMetroTakumi
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After fitting my swift OEM sway-bars i found that they really dont work the best, so im gonna try and make my own, I dont have a bender but i could probably do it anyways cause i know a guy, but theoretically have a straight swaybar with two places flattened out and holes drilled to bolt on to the chassis directly or would this be very bad?
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Coche Blanco
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Sway bars are not just bent metal, and no you can't have a straight sway bar. (you can, but it would have to have lever arms on the end to actually transfer the motion.) NASCAR uses something like this.
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A sway bar is sprung steel. Unless you have the strength of super man, or us a torch, you wont be able to bend it. What is the issue with mounting it? I have not heard of any one having troubles mounting one. They are pretty much plug and play.
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GeoMetroTakumi
Feb 2 2016, 10:03 AM
After fitting my swift OEM sway-bars i found that they really dont work the best, so im gonna try and make my own, I dont have a bender but i could probably do it anyways cause i know a guy

I love this stuff , even Hollywood can't come up with this shit .

You are going to re design it and make it better because you know the guy?? :rofl

So you are telling us that those 5 engineers at Suzuki that spent 20 years of education to get their Bachelor and six months of work to design suspension that works are in essence idiots and don't know what they are doing ?
OK , I'd love to see the results , take lot of pics
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DTM GTi
Feb 2 2016, 12:19 PM
You are going to re design it and make it better because you know the guy?? :rofl
Okay, I admit it. I got a big of chuckle out of that one, too.

I wish I, "had a guy". But, for me, it always seems like I'm twice removed in the knowledge food chain. "I know a guy who knows a guy." Unfortunately, the guy I know either doesn't know shit, or he ain't tellin'.
Edited by PTA2PTB, Feb 2 2016, 12:42 PM.
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both my sway bars cost $15 at a junkyard. both took less than a half hour to install. both work great. how in the hell are you going to beat that?

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A sway bar is sprung steel. Unless you have the strength of super man, or us a torch, you wont be able to bend it. What is the issue with mounting it? I have not heard of any one having troubles mounting one. They are pretty much plug and play.


Unless your exhaust is in the way, then some exhaust work needs to be done.
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GeoMetroTakumi
Feb 2 2016, 10:03 AM
After fitting my swift OEM sway-bars i found that they really dont work the best, so im gonna try and make my own, I dont have a bender but i could probably do it anyways cause i know a guy, but theoretically have a straight swaybar with two places flattened out and holes drilled to bolt on to the chassis directly or would this be very bad?
Hey so I saw in one of your other posts that you said you are 17 so you probably just got your license and this is your first car. You need to do allot of reading on here teamswift and anywhere else. I still look back to when I was your age at the lack of car knowledge I had but a geo is a great car to teach your self on.

What do you mean by that don't work well? Did they not fit? Did you put them on right?
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