Swaybar: how does this one mount?

[Meph]

I got this swaybar with my z, finally getting around to the install. I tried to mount it in the standard location behind the diff but it overshoots the endlink hold by like 4 inches. Is it designed to mount int he opposite direction?

 

Luickly my frames been reinforced with some 2x4 construction steel and it seems like I can mount the bar in that location with little to no modification, but I dont believe the original body would have had this option. Where does it belong?

 

Thanks a million

 

[JMortensen]

Normally the forward mounting bars go up in front of the diff above the exhaust. It might be that you have it upside down. Not sure.

 

If it fits there and you can make a bracket it looks like it might do OK. It's close to the ground but I've seen worse on street driven 510's.

[nullbound]

You've got it right in the pics, though that looks like the 280 bar. It just needs to be above your exhaust and closer to the diff like Jon said. I'm not sure what year your car is, but I believe there were brackets from the factory from '73 up. They look like this, but are in slightly different positions depending on the year:

 

'78 280:

 

'73 240:

 

The above pics were both taken from the passenger side. You can see how the brackets face different directions and how the 280 one sits farther forward and slightly higher.

 

If you're making your own brackets, you should be able to make it work fine.

 

BTW, I have that same bar on my 280, though not in lime green:

[cygnusx1]

Yes, the dip in the center of the bar is a dead giveaway of a 280Z rear bar.  Here is a 240Z Rear bar, rear mount.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the only photo I have of my 280Z rear bar partially removed.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 13, 2010 by cygnusx1

[Meph]

Thanks for the help! no more stock mounting points, re-framing the car eliminated them. Im gonna try mounting them off the 2X4 running the underside of the car,like in the pics. It will be low but something else is gonna scrape before it does 8)