[Chevelle-list] Sway Bar choice

[Clint Hooper]

A 1 1/8" front bar would be plenty for the front of a small block car,I
would think. I used a 1 1/4" Hellwig front and 1" rear on my 68 El Camino
w/BBC. With 17" rolling stock,the car was very flat in corners.
Clint Hooper
H&H Custom,owner
1969 El Camino protourer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo (Eddie) Gamino [mailto:egamino80 at mail.com]

I have done a search on this but I'm still not convinced. I am putting
in a front sway bar for a 1970 chevelle malibu 350 street/freeway
driver. I got three sizes in mind: 1-1/8" 1-1/4" or 1-5/16"
I'm really not familiar with these things so I come for your help. I
don't know which is best. It's a street car. I don't race the car, but I
do a lot of corner turning around street and through hills too. I just
want the perfect size bar, which will not do me more harm on my car than
good. Sometimes I hear that smaller is alright, but not that good and
that a bigger bar is better but not that big.
My car specs:
I don't have any sway bars installed? Should I get the rear sway bar
first? Can there be only one sway bar installed? Or do both front and
rear sway bars need to be installed on the car and used at the same
time?
I just recently rebuilt my rear end: 12 bolt 3.42 gears non-posi, new
axles, new everyhting. I also have new rear lower box control arms, all
new rear rubber bushings, and new Bilstien shocks. Hotchkis coil springs
front and back.
For the front end I just installed new MOOG inner and outer tie rods,
new upper and lower ball joints, and new idle arm. I'm running a 350
engine with a 350 tranny and with an MSD HEI Ignition kit. thanks guys

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