ive been looking at sway bars on the internet. my car is a 73 dart swinger that did not come equipped with a sway bar from the factory. im looking to improve the handling quite a bit.

what size front and rear sway bars would be good for a daily driven car?

for the time being, im probably only in the market for a front bar. ill more than likey put a rear bar on in the future but i want them to be a good match when i have a front and rear but i dont want my car to be ill handling till i save up enough for a rear bar as well, any advice?

what mods will i have to do since my car is not factory equipped with a sway bar?

The Addco bars have been popular on A-bodies for quite a long time. You're definitely on the right track looking at a front bar before a rear bar. You may also want to install heavier-duty torsion bars.

I could be mistaken, but I think all the '73-up lower control arms had the tabs for mounting front sway bar end links. If that's so, then mounting should be easy for you. If not, it is usually best either to weld tabs to your existing arms, or install arms that do have the tabs.

Shop around; I'm pretty sure Espo has sway bar kits and installation accessories, and JC Whitney probably still sells Addco bars.

Do some searching on here and .com there is lots of info about this. I used a PST bar which has the sturdiest mounting brackets of all the bars I researched. It comes with its own links so you can easily mount it on any A-body ,,,even those without tabs on the control arms. If your car has decent rear springs and shocks a rear bar is unnecessary and possibly undesirable. I dont have a rear bar (5 leaf rear springs, gas shocks) and my car is very neutral.

It took about 2 hours to install my PST bar 4 years ago,,,no issues since. It was, by far, the most effective suspension mod I have done.

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ive been looking at the pst bars pretty hard, im glad you chimed in. anybody else have some success stories with pst or other brands?

Nope, unfortunately the tabs were only on cars that came with the sway bar too. Why install tabs on thousands of cars for no reason?

According to info I have, the front sway bar was required with radial tires.

Mopar did offer a kit with the tabs only to weld onto your lower control arms (For those upgrading to radial tires). I have the service bulletin with the info and part number, and yes I tried to order that part number years ago and it was NS1. Wonder where they expected one to get the sway bar from???

I have an Addco front bar on my '66 Dart. I don't like the way it mounts to my K-member - the brackets hang down and got a real pounding on a pothole shortly after installing it. But the rest of the setup is good - I intend to change its mounting brackets sooner or later.

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I stuck .99 torsion bars and had a factory front sway bar, the larger torsion bars helped a ton for handling. I'm sure that a front sway in a car that didn't have one initially would also help a ton, and I'd suggest also upgrading your torsion bars.

Eventually I put a rear sway bar on, it helped a lot, but no where near what the larger torsion bars did.

Just remember that if you do too many upgrades to the front without doing something with the rear you might get handling that's not the best, you want to try to keep the front and rear somewhat similar.

Shivadart

Firm Feel bars ain't cheap, but they look really beefy...

http://www.firmfeel.com/swaybars_a.htm

VM