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Philip
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I'm only just starting to look at sway bar options for my planned 4x4 tube buggy. The suspension will be all custom so the sway bars from the donor car won't fit, it will need custom bars.
I just started doing some Googling and apparently getting custom bars made is very pricey though I didn't find any actual price.
Is a simple sway bar like the one below difficult to make? I'm guessing it's probably some special grade steel and may need heat treatment? So would that work, if I looked up the right steel, got it CNC bent and sent it away for treatment?
I get that there's some maths to be done to calculate the torsion, I think there's an Excel sheet for calculating that floating around on the Pirate4x4 forums. Mine won't be a serious racer so I don't need it precise.
The kit below is the serious solution used on 4x4 buggies, it's £550 for each end of the car and needs to be shipped from USA for any non standard size. An expense I'd like to avoid if I can. It is a neat solution though as the arms can tuck close to the chassis as things are tight in there when the suspension is at full travel, plus these arms are designed long for long travel suspension, I will have have 12" travel at the rear so my arms need to be 450mm (18").
I just started doing some Googling and apparently getting custom bars made is very pricey though I didn't find any actual price.
Is a simple sway bar like the one below difficult to make? I'm guessing it's probably some special grade steel and may need heat treatment? So would that work, if I looked up the right steel, got it CNC bent and sent it away for treatment?
I get that there's some maths to be done to calculate the torsion, I think there's an Excel sheet for calculating that floating around on the Pirate4x4 forums. Mine won't be a serious racer so I don't need it precise.
The kit below is the serious solution used on 4x4 buggies, it's £550 for each end of the car and needs to be shipped from USA for any non standard size. An expense I'd like to avoid if I can. It is a neat solution though as the arms can tuck close to the chassis as things are tight in there when the suspension is at full travel, plus these arms are designed long for long travel suspension, I will have have 12" travel at the rear so my arms need to be 450mm (18").