36mm fbody sway bar

[SS/GN]

Has anyone put a fbody sway bar in.I noticed the bar makes a bend where the bushing mounts to the frame.My concern is this will bind up the bar and also looks like ****.

 

[stickybones]

I have the 36mm hollow bar installed. Yes, the bend is right at the bushing mount point, but I don't have a problem with it binding or anything. Here's a picture I recently took of my LS1 brake job. You can see the mount of the sway bar.

 

[The Machine]

I have the 36mm hollow bar installed. Yes, the bend is right at the bushing mount point, but I don't have a problem with it binding or anything. Here's a picture I recently took of my LS1 brake job. You can see the mount of the sway bar.

Would you mind giving a play by play or part by part of what you have going there on your front suspension? It looks great! What spacers are those, and are they so you can use rear GNX/Firebird style wheels on the front?
Thnx.

 

[chasmat2316]

Bar works great in GN- no binding at all!

 

[stickybones]

Would you mind giving a play by play or part by part of what you have going there on your front suspension? It looks great! What spacers are those, and are they so you can use rear GNX/Firebird style wheels on the front?
Thnx.

A play by play is difficult. I'm too old to remember how I did everything I've done to this car over the years. A part by part is easier.

Upper control arms...UB Machine P/N 14-0809-5R. I installed the green garden hose clamp on the arm to act as a bump stop for the arm when you jack the car up and the arm hangs down. The small aluminum shield on the upper arm mount is protect the greasable steel bushings from downpipe heat (although you can't see it in this picture).

Lower control arms...stock (with new rubber bushings).

Springs...stock.

Shocks...Bilsteins. I don't remember the P/N. I got them from ATR about a million years ago.

Sway bar...36mm hollow F-body bar with the stock clamps and proper F-body bushings. Again, I don't remember the P/N on the bushings but I can probably find it if anyone really needs it. I think I just got stock replacement rubber end link bushings and hardware (I know they're not poly bushings).

Brakes...LS1 upgrade with a whole collection of parts I scrounged up.


The spacer on the rotor/hub is indeed to run GTA wheels, but not for the reason you suspect. I actually have modified GTA wheels to correct the backspacing problem inherent with the GTA wheels, but that's not the reason for the spacer. The spacer is needed because the depth of the inside mesh section surface of the GTA rim to the mounting surface face of the rim is not deep enough to clear the LS1 caliper. I had the machine shop that cut my stock rotor into a hub press a sleeve on the pilot to maintain hubcentricity of the wheels with the addition of the spacer.

 

[yullose]

FWIW...

Many years ago I worked in a GM parts dept.

The only F-body that used a 36mm front bar was the T/A GTA and they all weren't hollow... some were solid.

The Irocs only came with a 34mm bar.

They both shared the 24mm rear bar though.

 

[GNocide]

i have the bar too -works great
real close to the front pitman arms-a piece of paper just fits between them
in hind sight id prolly get the 34 just for clearance

got it off the impala ss also had to use mounting brackets and bushings form the 96 ss as well

 

[Ormand]

I have the 36mm hollow "F" body bar, and it works fine. It isn't quite as stiff as the 34mm solid bar, but it's lighter. The 36mm hollow bar was on late model 1LE and WS6 F bodies. I got mine from GM Parts Direct, for something like $75.

 

[SloGN]

i have a 36 mm hallow sway bar that indeed came from a 89 Irocz i used energy suspension sway bar mounts and bushing and used there sway bar end links. i oreder them from autozone.


that bar works wonders for a buick.


has anyone thoght about doing the blazer 2wd front brakes on a gn? 95-99 models read smothing about it on the MCSS board.

 

[DavzGN]

has anyone thoght about doing the blazer 2wd front brakes on a gn? 95-99 models read smothing about it on the MCSS board.

Yes, it's been discussed many times in the Brakes and suspension section.

HTH
David

 

[Roc87]

I run a 36mm bar on both the GN and the elky. You can tell it's hollow by a very small hole in each end by the link mount. Don't know what the one on the GN came off of, but I know the one for the elky is off the same '88 GTA that the engine/trans came out of.