Whiteline adjustable sway bars

Johnnie B Learner Dubber

13 posts · joined Mar 2011 · 26 Mar 2011, 3:49 am

#832521

About 20 years ago, Jeff Unwin from Hellbug and I built my old 56 beetle race car and used Whiteline adjustable sway bars. Whiteline no longer make them.
Does anybody out there have set they want to sell me?

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 26 Mar 2011, 7:00 am

#832527

hens teeth

Sides Veteran Volks Folk

2,220 posts · joined May 2007 · 26 Mar 2011, 8:42 am

#832545

Try Fulcrum Suspension in Brisbane.

Whatcha reckon Daimo... about once every two weeks at the moment ???

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matberry Moderator Go hard or go home

8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 26 Mar 2011, 8:44 am

#832547

Sides wrote:... about once every two weeks at the moment ???

suprising really....

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hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 26 Mar 2011, 11:01 am

#832570

yeah consistent hey

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Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 26 Mar 2011, 11:22 am

#832571

I have a few, new in boxes.😂

Johnnie B Learner Dubber

13 posts · joined Mar 2011 · 26 Mar 2011, 11:48 am

#832574

Craig, please don't tease me! 😬

Johnnie B Learner Dubber

13 posts · joined Mar 2011 · 26 Mar 2011, 11:50 am

#832575

hellbugged wrote:hens teeth

I KNOW!!! Its killing me!

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 26 Mar 2011, 8:59 pm

#832677

ha! I must be lucky then.

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mactaylor Custom Title Time!

1,005 posts · joined Aug 2007 · 27 Mar 2011, 6:22 am

#832698

should look at doing hollow ones!

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cnfabo Custom Title Time!

1,353 posts · joined Apr 2008 · 27 Mar 2011, 9:33 am

#832730

i have talked to some racers about the hollow ones and some say yay and some nay, but didnt find out what metal they use........they do use them on open wheelers.

i also rang a suspension place to see if i could buy some round spring steel then get it bent to shape then get them to heat treat it but they told me it is hard to get hold of "the round spring steel that is"...

i also asked a performance place how much to make a custom bar and they said around $900😂😂....

Special Air Service Chief "Gunna"

1,769 posts · joined Oct 2004 · 27 Mar 2011, 3:28 pm

#832758

cnfabo wrote:i also asked a performance place how much to make a custom bar and they said around $900😂😂....

isnt it funny how many $$$$$ the word "custom" can add to the price of a component.

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vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 27 Mar 2011, 3:43 pm

#832760

heat treating is a myth according to the new owners of whiteline. They said heat the bars where you need to bend them and bend to shape,
BUT! must be slowly cooled down.

I tryed this at home with some car springs and a blow torch and indeed, works perfectly.

Then I tried to cool them quicker/quickly and they lost the spring and become sort of hard, then soft once strength force was exceeded.

So I took this one step further. I put a force on a bed spring and noted the amount. then heated it red hot and cooled it slowly and re checked the force VS distance it was still the same.

So yeah their methods works. I plan to correct an imperfection in one of the arms of my whiteline front bar as the arms are out of parallel by 20mm from a mistake when press forge of the flat mounting faces during "custom" manufacturing.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE