Driving Impressions: Lower Stress Bar

[Kirk]

You are correct, either a 3/4" or 1" bar will fit. I bought both sizes of bar stock and went with the bigger 1" just because it would fit. I did have to take off one rear anti sway bar mount and the lower stress plate to fit the 1" bar though. It doesn't just slide up there without making some room first.

Honestly I can't recall what length of 3/8" bolts I used. I bought a couple different sizes. I think the 1" long bolts were just a hair too short with the 1" bar AND the other "Bristol bars" that I installed. So I'm pretty sure I used a 1.5" bolt that was too long, but the extra sticking up at the top doesn't hurt anything. I wouldn't lose any sleep over what length of bolts to use. You can pick them up for a couple bucks at any hardware store...

The length of 22 1/4" between holes is about what I measured too. I did make my bar about 25.5" long though, which may be why I had to remove some stuff to fit it. I was following the "longer is better" stigma though and so maxed out the bar for what would fit.

Kirk

[rick3000]

Thanks for the clarification. I would probably make it as short as possible so it has less of a chance of interfering with anything and adding unneeded weight.
Are there alread holes under the car for this sort of modification?
Do you pictures of where they are?
Thanks!

[Kirk]

Originally Posted by rick3000

Thanks for the clarification. I would probably make it as short as possible so it has less of a chance of interfering with anything and adding unneeded weight.
Are there alread holes under the car for this sort of modification?
Do you pictures of where they are?
Thanks!

With the aluminum bars weight isn't much of an issue. Take a look back at the pictures earlier in this post to see where the lower stress bar bolts on. One of the first photos from Insite has two red arrows pointing up to the mounting location. At first there are not "holes" where you mount this. Instead there are two, down-facing studs that you simply hammer out (not as scary as it sounds), thus making a hole, and then you replace those down-facing studs with up-facing bolts and bolt the lower stress bar on top.

[rick3000]

Thanks Again!