It's been a while since I've been on here, but I've been pretty active on other forums in the past, so I'll try to make a better habbit of coming back here to check in.
Anyhow, I finally got the back half project to a point that I can start moving on, and the next step was to keep the housing in place with a wishbone and an anti-roll bar. A few years ago I ordered an anti-roll bar and a wishbone from S&W Race cars, and they have just been sitting on the shelf waiting for me to get to this point, so I decided to put them on, and that's where the issues started. I assumed, since my back half was also a S&W piece that everything was made to work together, which is sort of true. The wishbone would work only if you mount it in a forward orientation under the housing. The ARB really didn't fit worth a damn, the arms landed in a horrible spot on the housing, pushing the tabs off center and forward. So I decided to step my game up a little bit and come up with a new plan.
Anti Roll Bar
The S&W ARB had three major issues. It's heavy (26 pounds), It doesn't fit, and it uses a splined torsion bar which have been known to fail. So I decided to replace it with with a universal kit from TRZ Motorsports. I'm sure everyone here knows the quality that TRZ puts out, and I have their entire front end on my car already so I knew I was getting a good piece. It's about half the weight of the S&W unit, fits much better, and the arms weld on to a piece of thick wall 4130 tubing, making it much stronger. It also has a zirk fitting to make maintenance simple, I like simple.
https://www.trzmotorsports.com/product/anti-roll-bar-billet-arms-8/
Wishbone
This was a tough one for me. The problem, other than the fit, with a wishbone is that there is a metal on metal slip joint that moves ALL the time. They require a ton of maintenance, and I'm not about unnecessary maintenance, I want to enjoy my car. So I ordered the unwelded version of this kit from Tim McAmis Performance Parts. TMPP makes top tier parts for 3,500hp pro mods, so this is a very very stout piece. What I love about it is that instead of metal on metal, it uses bearings in the slip tube, which means I can set it and forget it. This wishbone can also be mounted in either location (top or bottom) and in both forward and reverse orientations, perfect!
https://timmcamis.com/shop/hd-wishbone-kit-unwelded.html
The Install
The install was fairly straightforward. I changed how the ARB was mounted so I had to get some custom tabs made, and the wishbone doesn't come pre-notched so you can make your own design. I still have to finish the assembly and add the tabs to the housing, which is coming up in the next video hopefully. You can watch the current video below.
Anyhow, I finally got the back half project to a point that I can start moving on, and the next step was to keep the housing in place with a wishbone and an anti-roll bar. A few years ago I ordered an anti-roll bar and a wishbone from S&W Race cars, and they have just been sitting on the shelf waiting for me to get to this point, so I decided to put them on, and that's where the issues started. I assumed, since my back half was also a S&W piece that everything was made to work together, which is sort of true. The wishbone would work only if you mount it in a forward orientation under the housing. The ARB really didn't fit worth a damn, the arms landed in a horrible spot on the housing, pushing the tabs off center and forward. So I decided to step my game up a little bit and come up with a new plan.
Anti Roll Bar
The S&W ARB had three major issues. It's heavy (26 pounds), It doesn't fit, and it uses a splined torsion bar which have been known to fail. So I decided to replace it with with a universal kit from TRZ Motorsports. I'm sure everyone here knows the quality that TRZ puts out, and I have their entire front end on my car already so I knew I was getting a good piece. It's about half the weight of the S&W unit, fits much better, and the arms weld on to a piece of thick wall 4130 tubing, making it much stronger. It also has a zirk fitting to make maintenance simple, I like simple.
https://www.trzmotorsports.com/product/anti-roll-bar-billet-arms-8/
Wishbone
This was a tough one for me. The problem, other than the fit, with a wishbone is that there is a metal on metal slip joint that moves ALL the time. They require a ton of maintenance, and I'm not about unnecessary maintenance, I want to enjoy my car. So I ordered the unwelded version of this kit from Tim McAmis Performance Parts. TMPP makes top tier parts for 3,500hp pro mods, so this is a very very stout piece. What I love about it is that instead of metal on metal, it uses bearings in the slip tube, which means I can set it and forget it. This wishbone can also be mounted in either location (top or bottom) and in both forward and reverse orientations, perfect!
https://timmcamis.com/shop/hd-wishbone-kit-unwelded.html
The Install
The install was fairly straightforward. I changed how the ARB was mounted so I had to get some custom tabs made, and the wishbone doesn't come pre-notched so you can make your own design. I still have to finish the assembly and add the tabs to the housing, which is coming up in the next video hopefully. You can watch the current video below.
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