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Custom made sway bar #2187034
10/31/16 09:52 PM
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Does anyone have a known good contact for getting a custom sway bar made? It's not for mopar, its for my RX-7 with a 3 rotor in it. I need a bar the same overall specs as stock but with a different bend in the middle of it to clear the oil sump where no oil sump use to be.
I looked at the nascar style splined bars ,but they aren't going to work, I need something with an offset in the middle.
thx

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Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2187073
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Check with a leaf spring shop. If they can not do it, they may have a referral.

Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Kern Dog] #2187099
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Check out this article on The Hot Rod Network If you are handy with fabbing, or have a local Adult Ed school nearby. HTH, Steve

Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2187103
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Do you not have a local hot rod shop in Alberta that could make one? I could think of 3 places around Winnipeg that could build it if you can't find someone in your area.


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Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Skeptic] #2187135
10/31/16 11:53 PM
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Originally Posted By Skeptic
Check out this article on The Hot Rod Network If you are handy with fabbing, or have a local Adult Ed school nearby. HTH, Steve



up I have the fab capabilities do all the heating and bending but I couldn't find the metal or hardness specs anywhere to get a start, but there it is , all in that article. Most of the sway bar companies were of no help what so ever.
I'll buy a couple lengths of 4140 tomorrow and get at it, there is a leaf spring shop that does hardening I know of so I'll ask them if they can heat treat it.
Thanks for the replies everyone.

Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2187167
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Go for it. Those end links are very much like the ones I used back in the mid '70s on the front bar of my '71 Sebring. It worked great. I forget the dia. of the bar.


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Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2188309
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Trying to find 5' of 4140 in 1" is proving to be difficult... Found a place to heat treat it though.

Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2188314
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Originally Posted By Uberpube
Trying to find 5' of 4140 in 1" is proving to be difficult... Found a place to heat treat it though.


The shop that heat treats it didn't have any recommendations as to where to find some? Usually I don't see it at local metal supply places. You may have to order some from McMaster which may be expensive.

https://www.mcmaster.com/#grade-4140/4142-steel/=14vc6sq

Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2188381
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Originally Posted By Uberpube
Trying to find 5' of 4140 in 1" is proving to be difficult... Found a place to heat treat it though.



https://www.onlinemetals.com/merchant.cf...amp;top_cat=197

Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2188629
11/03/16 11:34 AM
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keep us updated, I'm very curious as to how this pans out and the costs associated!

Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2188973
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right now that online metals place is probably the best price on the stuff... Every local steel supplier is saying its special order and quoting near 20.00/ft Cdn dollars. My welding table is just big enough to make a jig on for this bar.

Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2294262
04/26/17 01:14 AM
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Spent about 200.00 cdn on materials. Now I have to send it off to be hardened.

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Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2294410
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Why not use a splined torsion bar from Speedway Engineering with bolt on ends? They have a large variety of widths and diameters including tubular. Then you are just modifying the ends to fit.

Re: Custom made sway bar [Re: Uberpube] #2294721
04/26/17 10:48 PM
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I looked at that option, there was no straight through path for the bar, it had to be offset in the centre as the bar I made is. It's the bulge in the oil pan where the oil pickup tube is for the 20b engine that screws up the path for a straight bar and the fitment of the stock one.
And I got to use fire, which made it kinda fun...

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