RE: Prep (on a budget) Q's, and Cheapassness.

[Ron Pieper <rapieper@yahoo.com>]

OK...maybe my memory failed me...27" seems a lot more
like it...

Ron
--- Chris DeLong <green536@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Just to elaborate here. We are talking about LOWER
> stress bars right? If so 
> then there is something seriously wrong with a car
> that has a bar on it 
> measuring 29" from hole center to hole center. The
> measurement should be 26 
> and 7/8".
> 
> >
> >
> > > If you have some welding skills (I don't...yet),
> I'm
> > > sure you could make
> > > either of these parts quite easily. I'd bet
> Cheapass
> > > Ron has all the details
> > > by now. ;)
> > >
> >
> >Cheapass Ron has a homemade lower tie bar on his
> >Cabby, seemed to do the trick.  Square mild steel
> >tubing and a coupla' welded-on ears, holes 29"
> apart
> >(Sorry Aaron, can't convert to metric in ma' haid).
> >But for the mere $40 I spent on obtaining a factory
> >4-point bar for my 16Victor© that was lacking, it
> >wadn't worth the effort. Besides, mine looks like
> >shit.
> >
> >Now, de upper, dat's beyond me.  But Victor came
> with
> >one, prolly so's the PO felt good about the big ol'
> >NEUSPEED  sticker on the hatch glass...(which was
> >scraped off waiting for the tow truck to come and
> take
> >'im home) so's I got no worries there.  Too many
> bends
> >and welds, so buy one, Eurosport seemed...cheap.
> >
> >C.R.© is now working on a rear anti-sway bar ala
> >Shine.  Solid aluminum square bar (dunno, 6061?) is
> >the latest thought...two holes, bingo, done. 
> Reckon
> >I'll call it the "Hiney" bar.
> >
> >Get it...rear...S-hine..."hiney"...?!?
> >
> >Sorry about the prose, had a few Kitzmann Pilseners
> >with my Jaegerschnitzel; now back at the Hotel
> >Bayerischerhof, in Erlangen (Germany).
> >
> >Peace, love, and dubs,
> >
> >Ron
> >(That's MISTER Cheapass, son)
> >
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