>>>The recent catalog from Vicky Brit shows on page 30 ADDCO Sway bars >>>for
>Spits and GT6's both front an REAR. Are these any good to helh >>>the early
>Spit tuck tendency?
>>Naw, look again and you'll see it's for GT6's only. Nothing for the
>>rear of Spitfires. (snip)
>My catalog shows:
>part # 5-971 ADDCO sway bar - rear 5/8" spitfire 62-72
>and
>part # 5-973 ADDCO sway bar - rear 5/8" spitfire 73-80
I stand corrected. On re-read, I discovered that little column hiding
on the right. It got my curiousity as I thought it must be some sort of
mistake. So I went and looked it up in my Addco book. Sure enough,
they've got rear bars for any year Spitfire.
Personally, I don't think I'd want a rear swaybar on a swing axle rear.
It might work though. I've never spoken to someone who had one out back
on a swing axle car that liked it. That mainly VW's.
The more I think about it though, I don't see how it would hurt. The
swing axle problem is with the inner wheel dropping down and the car
then switching over the top of it on the next turn. Allright, but a
sway bar will tend to lift the inner wheel, not lower it. So it might
help just like a camber compensator.
Although if you completely lift the rear, like under hard braking, it
isn't going to do anything to keep the wheels from tucking in. So if
you go into a turn under hard braking, you'd still be tucking the rear
under. I don't know for sure, but I'd really think a camber compensator
would be a better way the spend the money.
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