Bending My Swaybar...

[Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com (Larry)]

Tyler-
  You can bend the bar cold.  Had to do this to youngson's MkI.  It won't
hurt anything.  Just don't bend it any more than you have to...about 3/8"
clearance should do it. This slight amount of angle will not affect the
mounts.
If you bend it hot, you must control the quench carefully;  too fast a
quench and that spot will be hard and brittle, eventually breaking; too slow
a quench and that spot will be soft and the bar will do much of its twisting
right there, with the same results (eventually breaking at that spot).
Touching the header will not get it hot enough to hurt it.

Larry  sandiego16v


> Hey all, I got my header and new exhaust system put on the roc this
weekend
> (thanks Dave!) but one problem has cropped up.  My front sway bar no
longer
> fits on the car.  Where the bend is in the middle regions of the sway bar
is
> not big enough and it touches my header.  I got the two ends bolted down
on
> the A frames and got the driverside bolted down but the passenger side of
> will not bolt down.  So right now I have 3 out of 4 mounting points
secured.
> 1 option is to put my jack under the sway bar and jack it up into
position,
> this would work but it would put a lot of stress on my header I would
think
> and I'd probably start burning gaskets.  Another option is to bend my
> swaybar a little more and move the rubber bushings accordingly, but I
don't
> know what this would do for the structural integrity of the swaybar.  My
> last option, my favorite, is to buy a bigger and beefier sway bar for the
> front, the only problem here is I don't know if the bigger sway bars would
> give any more clearance.  Could somebody on here let me know if they have
> more clearance than stock or not?  Thanks!


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