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Rear Sway Bar and Bushings


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OK so i'm about to order the addco rear swaybar for my 96 GP from http://performancecenter.com/ and I had a few questions...

 

1, anyone ever order from here, and have any idea how long it will take to get it here? I know you may suggest truckperformance.com, however this site is on addco's list of distributors and it looks EXACTELLY like truckperformance (kinda makes me wonder wtf is going on).

 

2, i'm assuming the sway bar comes with all bushings that I need (including the bushings for the very outer ends of the bar?)

 

3, i'd like to replace other bushings on my car with some nice poly ones. Can anyone inform me of where I could get some nice poly bushings that I could replace in the front and or rear areas? Bushings that would be fairly simple, not something that will require me to rip a ton of crap apart to replace. Like front sway bar bushing, etc.

 

Thanks.

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get a 34mm front swaybar from any DOHC equipped w-body. You can get greasable polyurethane bushings from Energy suspension.

 

Energy Suspension Part #'s

 

9.5160 (24 mm - outers)

9.5167 (33 mm - inners)

 

Buy 1 package of each.

 

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OK found the page

http://www.energysuspension.com/pages/swaybbct.html

 

What is the stock (FE1 I assume for a GP sedan) inner and outer front swaybar sizes?

 

Also I found this page about endlinks...

http://www.energysuspension.com/pages/endl.html

 

Anything there that we could use? I'm not quite sure how endlinks work and I can't go out and look i'm still tryin to recover from sugary...

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As far as I know, you have to drop the back of the subframe down. I don't know the diameters of the FE1 bar, someone else may know though.

 

The inner bushings attach the swaybar to the subframe. The outer bushings attach the swaybar to the A-arm. There are no "endlinks", the bar and bushings just bolts directly to the car.

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I'm looking for some info on the Addco bar too, and what's this business about it hitting things in the rear?

 

While I'm at it, I might as well install an STB up top. Suggestions?

 

After that.... what else can I do to the rear suspension? I've already got the GMPP trailing arms and FFP coilovers.

 

I think I'll tackle the front after that, although I'm expecting that's going to be where the real fun begins.

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I'm looking for some info on the Addco bar too, and what's this business about it hitting things in the rear?

 

 

 

you'll see right behind the blue collar and right above the sway bar is where i torched the "inner wheel well" to make room for the sway bar.....now with the revised addco bar this prolem was fixed for the most part.

 

 

and i had to re-locate the place where the steel and rubber brake lines meet to make room too.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Aweb I thought for sure if you didn't swap out your front bar for an FE3, you would have got some new bushings for it :cool:.

 

Anyone have an accurate way of measuring the size bushings needed for me? I don't think my string and ruler and using google to convert from inches to mm will be too accurate...

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