JMortensen

I think hooking to the strut has only advantages and no disadvantages. The problem that I had is that I couldn't seem to get it mocked up in a way that would allow full suspension travel without the sway bar hitting the tie rod. If I were to do this project again I would now have different tie rods which aren't bent and would allow a little more clearance, and I'm also planning on running a stiffer spring rate so I probably wouldn't worry as much about binding and would instead just limit the suspension travel. I haven't read the article, just got my first issue of RCE this week. I have heard of the angle of the end link changing the amount of force on the control arm before, which is why I tried to set them up level at ride height, and also why I mounted the lower part of the rear end links under the control arm. That allowed me to lengthen the rear links by about 2".

It was an Iraqi woman holding up complete cartridges that she said hit her house.

Did they change the picture? I actually complained about it, but I didn't think they'd actually change the picture...

Nice work Terry! I always wondered how you weld in between the tubes at the collector. Want to share your secret?

Apparently Mike wanted to play with Sammy's band as well, and was told if he was in Van Halen he couldn't be in any other bands. So he told them no. That's what I heard on the radio. I also heard that the weren't going to do it at all because they couldn't get Mike and Wolfgang didn't have that insanely high pitched voice necessary for the harmonies. Shortly thereafter Eddie went into rehab and now they're apparently going to give it a shot. I like Van Halen, especially the original line up. I just hope for their sakes that this doesn't suck.

I've used their doglegs. They worked out fine. They quoted me 2 months backorder and they arrived in about 2 weeks.

Yeah I moved and changed ISPs and all the pics that weren't hosted here went byebye. I'll see if I can't dig them up and just post the important ones.

I set a 25 lb weight on the very end of the bar and it registered 25 lbs on the close hole on the opposite side. I moved the end link to the last hole and it measured 22 on the scale. So it sounds like the original numbers were right...

It reminds me of the old comic books which always show the whole cartridge in flight...

I think Cary and I figured out that my sway bar readings are 1/2 of the actual numbers. I was measuring the force on one side, and not measuring the force on the opposite end of the bar. So I think my numbers should effectively be doubled to 210 to 240 for the front bar and 100 to 160 for the rear bar. Instinctively that sounds better. Anyone know if this is right or wrong?

I know they have a "standard" grind which is over .500 lift. Should be able to just ask for it.

I think they have a lot larger cams that they can grind, but just like MSA they don't really push the big ones because they know that anyone using stock FI will be PISSED OFF when they go to all the hassle and find out that their car runs like dog poop.

It's been over a year since I got this project done, but I just did some related work and thought I'd share. I wanted to know what my swaybar spring rates were, so I measured it. I had to try a couple different methods to get the swaybar figures. What I ended up doing was bolting the bar mounts to some square stock and clamping that to my workbench. Then I attached the end link to another piece of square stock and set that on a bathroom scale. Then I took a piece of pipe, put it over the free end of the bar and moved it down one inch at the appropriate end link hole and read the scale on the other side to get the bar rates. What I came up with was that the front bar has a min rate of about 105 lbs/in and a max rate of 120 lbs/in. The rear had a min rate of 50 lbs/in and a max of 80 lbs/in. I don't know why, but I was really expecting hundreds of lbs of force there. I was pretty surprised at how light the bars are. Again, these started life as the MSA front bar and the ST rear bar, with all of the modifications listed in this thread for adjustability. The rear bar is surprisingly adjustable, and I was pretty shocked that I could almost double it's force by adjusting from the lightest to heaviest setting.