diy asr brace and got a 22mm rear sway

Post by **stolle** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:25 am

hats off to you matt, i dont think most of you realize what type of forces or where they are going to be applied on this thing. essentially the sway bar is a torsion spring, meaning its going to be twisted, up and down as the outer wheel travels up its going to pull the inner wheel up. so the adapter is mounted in the direction that its most rigid straight up and down, which is where its going to see most if not all its load as the control arms try to twist the sway bar, up and down. hence why the stock sway bar mounts are stamped steel and why they have nothing bracing them from moving back and forth.

4Door · Post by **4Door** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:15 am

you should buy another piece of that steel and some 1/4'' box tubing, i have a piece of round tubing we can use... ill cut and weld it so it will in fact be strong and ridged... we will use the tubing for where the bolts go threw so that to will be re-enforced...

if you follow what im saying, it would prolly serve its purpose a lil better... or, just drive it and see what problems (if any) occur...

Capt'n Obvious · Post by **Capt'n Obvious** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:22 am

andyjt;240620 wrote:Pretty sure it will just bent the factory brackets his adapater brace is bolted to before it would even have a chance to hurt the subframe.

yeah the metal is thicker than them then again it does have bends in it that in theory would serve the same purpose as beads

JustRob;240652 wrote:Dumb. The car needs struts before a sway bar.

matt needs money before struts

stolle;240715 wrote:hats off to you matt, i dont think most of you realize what type of forces or where they are going to be applied on this thing. essentially the sway bar is a torsion spring, meaning its going to be twisted, up and down as the outer wheel travels up its going to pull the inner wheel up. so the adapter is mounted in the direction that its most rigid straight up and down, which is where its going to see most if not all its load as the control arms try to twist the sway bar, up and down. hence why the stock sway bar mounts are stamped steel and why they have nothing bracing them from moving back and forth.

i did think of that

4Door;240752 wrote:you should buy another piece of that steel and some 1/4'' box tubing, i have a piece of round tubing we can use... ill cut and weld it so it will in fact be strong and ridged... we will use the tubing for where the bolts go threw so that to will be re-enforced...

if you follow what im saying, it would prolly serve its purpose a lil better... or, just drive it and see what problems (if any) occur...

im down if our schedules ever match great idea

i was actually thinking of square tubing welded behind it so it was flush with the frame then bolting it to the frame

also in theory the closer the sway bar mounts are to the mounting points of the bracket the less flex there will be. notice i mounted the sb brackets close to the adapter plate mounts