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?

hens teeth

Try Fulcrum Suspension in Brisbane.

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

yeah consistent hey

Flip me your phone number dave, i will call you

I have a few, new in boxes.

Craig, please don't tease me!

ha! I must be lucky then.

should look at doing hollow ones!

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....

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Originally posted by cnfabo i also asked a performance place how much to make a custom bar and they said around $900....

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.