sway bar's and subframe connectors
09-29-2011, 06:19 PM
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sway bar's and subframe connectors
I am looking to do a few things to my 1965 this winter, and i was wondering how big of a difference bigger sway bars, and sub frame connectors will make. mustang depot has a kit with a bigger front and rear sway bars, and sub frame connector. does anyone have this done on their car? and was it a noticible difference?
09-30-2011, 01:44 AM
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To me sub frame connectors are a must on any uni body car it will take a lot of flex out of it.The ones that look factory are http://www.tinmanfabrication.com/ind...=cat/cat60.htm
10-05-2011, 04:51 PM
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I am going to be on the other end of the spectrum here.
Subframe connectors on a 65 car can help, but if your floor is flexible due to floor pan patches and overlapping panels, or worse then I recommend making the car right first.
If the floors are proper you may want to look at adding front torque boxes on both sides. They connect the front frame rails to the outer rockers, and those are both thicker and stronger metal than those front floor pan extensions, and it makes for a wider frame. They were in the ragtops from the start, but In 68 Ford put torque boxes on both sides of the hard top cars, and it was more money to do that than it would have been to just add a tube that we call subframe connectors these days.
Store bought SFC's only mount to the front floor pan support extensions, and those things do not have any real strength to them. If you can remove those and connect to the front frame rail then you may be on to something.
Just my .02
Subframe connectors on a 65 car can help, but if your floor is flexible due to floor pan patches and overlapping panels, or worse then I recommend making the car right first.
If the floors are proper you may want to look at adding front torque boxes on both sides. They connect the front frame rails to the outer rockers, and those are both thicker and stronger metal than those front floor pan extensions, and it makes for a wider frame. They were in the ragtops from the start, but In 68 Ford put torque boxes on both sides of the hard top cars, and it was more money to do that than it would have been to just add a tube that we call subframe connectors these days.
Store bought SFC's only mount to the front floor pan support extensions, and those things do not have any real strength to them. If you can remove those and connect to the front frame rail then you may be on to something.
Just my .02
10-05-2011, 05:15 PM
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SFC's are great. They will also give more jacking locations to jack the car up.
You will be fine with the SFC's that go from the front frame rails to the rear frame rails, most of them go there anyway, are better then nothing, and will improve the car a lot!
Lynn
You will be fine with the SFC's that go from the front frame rails to the rear frame rails, most of them go there anyway, are better then nothing, and will improve the car a lot!
Lynn
10-05-2011, 09:07 PM
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Torque boxes would be nice too but when I put my sfc on the whole car tightened right up. If my fastback had had sfc's from the get go I'll bet the roof never would have oil canned.
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