Sway bar Thursday, 15-Feb-01 19:15:13 64.12.102.43 writes: A friend of mine installed a narrowed beam on his '60 Bug (beam has been narrowed 2"). He asked me to find a narrowed sway bar for his application. Who is selling these sway bars in SO CAL? Thanks! Stephan S

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Get a hold of Geoff Peterson @ California Imports....... (Tom H.) (15-Feb-01 19:24:19) not socal but I got my sway bar from geoff peterson. (n/t) (Doug Lewis) (15-Feb-01 19:24:34) Got mine from Geoff Peterson, too...very nice piece! (n/t) (Craig Merrow) (15-Feb-01 19:30:03) I cut 2" from the center of mine then put the ends together within a small section of pipe & made a 360' weld around the ends of the pipe & swaybar. However I've been told that a standard width swaybar will fit a 2" narrow beam. (n/t) (Derrick from NC) (15-Feb-01 19:38:01) Re: Narrowed Beam Sway bar (John Palmer) (15-Feb-01 21:00:47) John, what is your experience with the RLR beam? Looking for one for my '60 and need some input. Thanks. (n/t) (Steve Cortez) (15-Feb-01 21:43:55) Re: Ron Lummus Racing (RLR) Narrowed Beam (John Palmer) (16-Feb-01 00:07:25) Re: Sway bar you can get a hold of Geoff at 604-760-5899 (n/t) (16-Feb-01 10:55:56)

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........ he sells them and they fit rather well, got one on my car from him.

Tom H.

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Stephan, We have a 2" RLR narrowed beam on Troy's 1960 bug. We used the Bugpack "lowered" sway bar and just positioned it to the sides of the trailing arms and attached it with those trick T-type bolt clamps. It works just fine. We bought it from Kymco.

FYI

John Palmer

John Palmer

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Steve, I was very happy with the Ron Lummus Racing two inch narrowed linkpin beam that Ron did for our car. He cut the inside of the shock towers back and it was a tight fit inside the fender wells but slid in nicely with two inches removed from the beam. He cut the springs and I cut the tie rods. Make sure you cut the right threaded ends, as it's easier to find than a left hand thread metric tap!

Two things I would consider if I did it again. One, is if you use lowered CB spindles with the beam adjusters make sure that the adjusters are welded-in almost the stock axis rotation or else the car will end up on the ground without any height adjustment travel left. Ours could have been a touch higher. Not sure how you would explain it maybe a couple of degrees.

Two, I would have asked him to weld on a higher mounting point for the top of the shocks. We use 90-10 drag shocks (Summit, Dodge?) like pictured on Muffler Mike's site and they are very long. I had to make an adapter like Mike's to make the long shocks work.

Lummus does high quality work at what I feel is reasonable prices. He is currently doing a Bolt-in five point NHRA legal rollbar for our car and we should have it in by Phoenix.

Have fun with your project.

John Palmer