- 1. re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: CONAN@RALVM8.VNET.IBM.COM
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 98 17:03:48 EDT
- Hi Drew, I'd go with Ulix' advice. Try a stock front bar first; especially considering the prices you noted. My '73 has a stock front bar (with hard plastic bushings) and a very small rear bar. I lik
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00984.html (7,130 bytes)
- 2. sway bars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 20:57:43 EDT
- Is there any problem with drilling the lower A arms for a sway bar attachment? My Bugeye never had bars and I am wondering if drilling holes would weaken them. Are the newer A arms reinforced where t
- /html/spridgets/2001-10/msg00662.html (6,161 bytes)
- 3. Re: sway bars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:36:09 -0400
- No problem drilling holes if you make sure to use backing plates when you bolt through the A-frames. I made backing plates out of scrap steel that I had laying around. Kent
- /html/spridgets/2001-10/msg00664.html (6,910 bytes)
- 4. Sway bars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:46:38 -0400
- Just a quick question. Is there any difference between the sway bars for a RB vs. a CB? There is one on ebay and they say it fits all 1500 Midgets. I believe the front springs are different, so is th
- /html/spridgets/2001-07/msg00899.html (6,140 bytes)
- 5. Re: Sway bars (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:24:34 +0100
- The standard 1500 sway bar is equivalent to an uprated (i.e. torsionally stiffer) 1275 midget bar. A worthwhile improvement Guy for a RB Midgets. I difference in
- /html/spridgets/2001-07/msg00903.html (6,969 bytes)
- 6. Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: "Timothy H. Collins" <thcollin@mtu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:15:19 -0500
- The owner/author of this web site: http://www.tsimportedautomotive.com/Swabarra.html gives a chart to show the effect of moving from one size sway bar to larger/smaller sizes. For instance, in moving
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00033.html (6,951 bytes)
- 7. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: type79@ix.netcom.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:09:15 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
- First off, Thanks for that information. Very useful and interesting. But I also want to respond to the comment that a bar is uneccssary except for "spirited driving". I will only speak from my own e
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00034.html (7,832 bytes)
- 8. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:39:36 EST
- 52% increase is a big increase but in relation to what? The really interesting math would be to work out the total roll stiffness of the front end of the Spridget and then factor in how big a change
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00042.html (8,734 bytes)
- 9. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: "WFO Herb" <froggi60@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:26:07 -0800
- That information is on Ted Schumacher's site...TR7, TR8. Ted sells new and used parts. I've purchased a number of items from him and always got more than I paid for. Ted was a factory TR8 driver duri
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00048.html (7,505 bytes)
- 10. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:32:13 -0500
- On a street Sprite the 7/8 anti roll/sway bar is too much. I down sized to a 3/4" bar and for my driving habits, it's perfect. But the same 7/8 bar on a tall skinny Austin A40 worked out perfect. It
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00053.html (7,856 bytes)
- 11. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:38:24 EST
- And nobody makes a 13/16" bar AFAIK.
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00054.html (8,117 bytes)
- 12. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: "Bud Pazur" <bpazur@excel.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:15:38 -0600
- I can attest that a 9/16" Winners Circle anti-sway bar made a tremendous improvement in the drive-ability of my street Bugeye. It made the Bugeye feel like a much bigger, heavier car. The straight li
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00057.html (9,170 bytes)
- 13. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: Bill L <pythias@pacifier.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:02:24 -0800
- now then, i thought the idea was to be going for "neutral" handling.. and putting bars bigger than 5/8 take the cars from "tail happy", or in nascar terms "loose" .. or more properly, oversteer-...
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00060.html (8,261 bytes)
- 14. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:13:53 -0600
- You are wrong ;-) Hey, you asked for it! Anyway, Bill Perry of Rivergate fame assures me that a Spridget with semi-elliptics tends to handle best with a 3/4" front sway bar and no rear bar. Since I
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00062.html (8,160 bytes)
- 15. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: "Glen Byrns" <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:14:12 -0800
- I'm currently running the "middle sized" bar, and enjoy the difference. I took the bugeye out for a test run on a long straight road near home and quickly put it up to ~100MPH. A small irregularity i
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00063.html (8,710 bytes)
- 16. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: Billy Zoom <billyzoom@billyzoom.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:25:30 -0800
- Thanks. Now I know what to stay away from.
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00066.html (7,657 bytes)
- 17. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <lmacy@phillymgclub.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 21:43:49 -0500
- Never knew his history, always knew him to be a knowledgeable good guy. Knowing he was a driver makes more sense. Look at his site, more TR stuff there, but I do like his 276 cam in my 1500. Larry --
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00068.html (8,432 bytes)
- 18. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:20:49 -0800 (PST)
- I dunno, I thought his footwork needed some improvement in the fight he had with another vendor at the Triumph VTR in Rockford last year. Ron Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. ht
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00074.html (7,566 bytes)
- 19. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 05:36:58 EST
- Sorry but a lot of this sounds all wrong in context of a spridget. Cars don't generally change so much from being an understeering car to an oversteering car rather you change the order (or speed) at
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00079.html (9,450 bytes)
- 20. Re: Sway Bars (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert E. Shlafer" <pilotrob@webtv.net>
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:52:59 GMT
- "you change the order (speed) at which each one occurs" Bingo! :) Cap'n. Bob '60 :{)
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00082.html (7,296 bytes)
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