Whats the hot setup to put an antisway bar on the front of my 64 Dart ?Anybody done it and have a recommended company to get ahold of ? (SL6 powered of course)

Last I head Addco was about the only game in town for aftermarket sway bars, unless you get really luck and find a factory swaybar setup. I may be wrong though.

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Casually looking for a Clifford hyperpak intake for cheap.

What is "hot" for you...
Super good handling performance or ease of installation?
DD

X2 with the Doug's comment. Spend a bit more and get yourself the Firm Feel Tubular set-up:

http://www.firmfeel.com/a_body_mopar_fr ... bular.html

It is an amazing unit!!!

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. . . there was good sport at his making.

The rear mount for the Addco bar is fine.

The front mount for the Addco bar sucks.


I improved the front mount to make it acceptable. (for less cost than the firmfeel setup)

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

Some previous threads on the mounts

http://slantsix.org/forum/viewtopic.php ... unt#304376

http://slantsix.org/forum/viewtopic.php ... unt#301100

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

looking for good handling the most. I have some talented people to help install it. I just spotted a Hellwig bar in the Jegs catalog for around $270
seems a little pricy hopefully it is a better fit than the Addco bar

Firmfeel will likely be better than Hellwig, and about that price. Addco will require some hours of fab time with a welder and some plate/angle steel.

Lou

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Now you made me curious- I'll have to crawl under the front of my 63 Valiant & see what I did years ago. It was an Addco bar & their tinker-toy mount setup never made it onto the car. I recall doing a fair bit of welding & fabricating. I'll see on Monday.

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63 Valiant Wagon
225 - 4 bbl

There's a Guy over at FABO selling a Helleig bar for an early A. I bought one for my wagon and looks like it will be pretty easy to install, especially using factory LCAs with the correct sway bar tab.

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65 Dart station wagon slant 6 - now under construction
47 Dodge Custom 4 Door sedan
87 D100 Short Bed slant 6

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Michael is totally right. I put mine on my 63 and WOW. What a difference.

Takes a tiny bit of modification, but amazing bar.

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63 Plymouth Valiant V200 Convertible.
225, HEI, Super Six with 38/38 Weber, Electric Fans, Scarebird discs, FirmFeel front swaybar.

Thanks everybody I forgot to add that I switched over to the 69-72 small bolt pattern Disc Brakes. Does that change anything ?

It depends- you usually can't fit a front sway bar to a narrow body A with discs unless the calipers are mounted to the rear of the spindle. I don't recall the sbp K-H disc setup. I went with lbp single piston discs- that required swapping the spindles L-R to get the calipers towards the rear.

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63 Valiant Wagon
225 - 4 bbl

So if you do a LBP disc brake swap from 73-76 abody into a early 63-72 abody to use a sway bar the calipers need to be mounted to the rear of the rotor ?.
What is needed for this ? I read look out for brake lines ? I will be putting braided lines on . Then install either firm feel sway bar Or hellwig sway bar

Thanks smitty

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1963 Plymouth Valiant Wagon

I have 74 discs on my 65, calipers front, and used an Addco bar.
I bent the ends of the bar inward slightly (1"ish) which cleared the calipers and gave me a better end-link angle to boot.

There's always going to be a little 'fine-tuning' needed on any install, but it's nothing that can't be done.

Lots of options...

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