Rear sway bar mesurments

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k_scheeringa
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So I'm going to have access to the rear suspension (sub frame) out of a 94 Q45 that i may be swapping on my 86 300zx.
Unfortunately the car this is coming off of did not come with a rear sway bar, and that Q45 only came with 3 options, no bar, 16mm bar and a 20mm bar and No one makes any after market bars for it.

As I'm led to believe from all the reading i can find on-line, this sub frame is a bit of a combo between the Z32tt and Z32NA frames.
If anyone has a Z32 rear sway bar around that they could measure, could you fill in the measurements shown in the following picture?
This will let me see if a Z32 bar could be used. As all the rest of the suspension linkages are swappable from a Z32, this will allow some available upgrades while swapping into a Z31.

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This way i can compare to the mounting points on the sub frame from the car.
Thanks


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Sure thing give me just a second.

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k_scheeringa wrote:So I'm going to have access to the rear suspension (sub frame) out of a 94 Q45 that i may be swapping on my 86 300zx.
Unfortunately the car this is coming off of did not come with a rear sway bar, and that Q45 only came with 3 options, no bar, 16mm bar and a 20mm bar and No one makes any after market bars for it.

As I'm led to believe from all the reading i can find on-line, this sub frame is a bit of a combo between the Z32tt and Z32NA frames.
If anyone has a Z32 rear sway bar around that they could measure, could you fill in the measurements shown in the following picture?
This will let me see if a Z32 bar could be used. As all the rest of the suspension linkages are swappable from a Z32, this will allow some available upgrades while swapping into a Z31.

Image

This way I can compare to the mounting points on the sub frame from the car.
Thanks

Measurements are from a stock TT rear sway bar.
A= 46 1/4" center bolt hole to center bolt hole.
B= ~7"
C= ~2 1/2" I measured from the apexi of the curve to center of the bolt hole.
D= 12 Center to center.

k_scheeringa
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Excellent I really appreciate this.
Hopefully this'll let me know I can use one for my swap.
I’ll have to see what’s in the way on the Q45 keeping people from using.

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k_scheeringa wrote:Excellent I really appreciate this.
Hopefully this'll let me know I can use one for my swap.
I’ll have to see what’s in the way on the Q45 keeping people from using.
:dblthumb:

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For thickness yes that helps, i was looking for the dims shown to see if i could use it on a Q45 sub frame.
It seems the Q sub frame may be even wider then the z32 sub frame, which may make it difficult to use the way i need.
I'm still doing research.


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