Is it possible to straighten a tweaked sway bar ??

[jamesmost]

heated and straighten ?

[DrewQ45]

What exactly do you mean by tweaked? As in someone bent it on purpose?

[maxnix]

Heat will lose the temper.

It is after all a spring.

[Q45tech]

Many times you must shim the endlinks with your weight in driverseat as the body maybe tweeked..........springs,etc.

The nice thing is the way the bar attaches to lower control arm is that the ratio is 1:4 so even an inch of asymmetry only needs 1/4" of bar correction.

Or are you mystified by the front bar's angle thru the mounts to prevent the use of hard urethane bushings. Remember the front bar is already stiff enough for the tires and weight even with lowering springs. A stiffer front bar needs much stronger tires to avoid the added understeer tire wash out [exceeding the slip angle optimum of 6 degrees at 0.8G]

You need a pit/drive on ramp that is level to finely trim sway bars or a tiny person to slide under and fine tune.

The Q 146/123 springs mean that the body depresses a lot with weight depending upon the weigh location.

Just as 22.5 gallons or the lack thereof moves the rear 140/246= 0.57"

A driver or not [at the C of G plus offset] changes the leftside the same amount at just 150 pounds, a big guy ~~1"

http://does.eng.buffalo.edu/pu...6.pdf

[Q45tech]

Lot's of difference between the 18" Pilot Sports or the PS2 that the upgraders use and the typical tire on the Q.....actually using 6 degrees of slip angle is probably excessive so a smaller front sway bar is desirable.

[jamesmost]

i hit a gulch last night and bent my sway bar and it smashed int the new diff on the input flange. my mechanic says cant straighten it that it would snap like a twig.

[Q45tech]

Some hit a gulch to bend a SOLID 24mm bar and not have end links break.

I have a 24mm rear bar sitting on the porch? But it's priceless as a door stop.

[PopPop]

Hey D do you want to sell that 24mm rear swaybar I was about to have one made for racing to help with my of the line launching but will switch it out unless at the track! Do you have the mounting hardware to go with it also guess it would be useless especially without the frame bushings and mounts. I don't know if the end links are the same as the 20mm end links if so I have those new already. E-Mail me at [email protected] with details and price!

Some hit a gulch to bend a SOLID 24mm bar and not have end links break.

I have a 24mm rear bar sitting on the porch? But it's priceless as a door stop.

[Q45tech]

Not for sale [for any price that you could have one custom made for] it's for the Q museum.

Keep hoping someone will mass build a 22-22.5 mm solid units so I can dump my Eibach Springs.

[maxnix]

Not for sale [for any price that you could have one custom made for] it's for the Q museum.

Keep hoping someone will mass build a 22-22.5 mm solid units so I can dump my Eibach Springs.

Hello....RobertsnewQ? We're ready.

[jamesmost]

Hey D do you want to sell that 24mm rear swaybar I was about to have one made for racing to help with my of the line launching but will switch it out unless at the track! Do you have the mounting hardware to go with it also guess it would be useless especially without the frame bushings and mounts. I don't know if the end links are the same as the 20mm end links if so I have those new already. E-Mail me at [email protected] with details and price!

THANKS FOR UR SUPPORT TY