Originally Posted by oldopelguy
Those sure are some nice pictures, is that camera still holding out or did you get another?
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Same camera Stephen. Still working fine, it's just a bit touchy in low light situations. I need to set up a tripod for the longer exposure times, otherwise it gets blurry from my hands shaking.
We also need to get you a plasma torch, those outer ball joints would have taken seconds to cut for the new mounts.
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I have an awesome 50 AMP plasma cutter, still have no air to run it, that's all!
Did you recess the sway-bar mount some up into the "L" bracket, or is the notch always that "deep"? I don't remember it being so is all.
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That is indeed stock.
I've been planning on swapping out the rubber sway bar bushing in the lower control arm with a load-rated spherical mono-ball, and looking at those pictures makes me wonder if swapping out the inner one might not be a bad idea too. The outer sleeves typically used with them are so much thicker than what's in there stock and it might help keep the arms together. Sure the ride would be a bit rougher, but it wouldn't be on a DD car anyway...
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I've done this before on race cars. The down side is that it can cause a bind (believe it or not) due to the sway bar arm and the lower a-arm traveling in different arcs. On a lowered car especially, the sway bar draws the lower a-arm rearward. This does two thing primarily, it changes caster (reduces it) and it binds the lower a-arm bushing. On a pure race car with very stiff springs (700 lb or so) and maybe 2-3" of total travel you can design the bind to be 'outside' the normal travel window, but on a longer travel street car it will show up somewhere during your driving and can wreak havoc.
Bob