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Old 03-20-2009, 09:05 AM
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Sway bar poly bushing size?V6

I have '92 3.1 with front bar at 1-1/8" (28.5mm?) and rear bar 11/16" (17.5mm?)
Does anyone have a good line on the correct poly bushing kits for these bars? J.C.Whitney has decent universal style, but they don't include end links. The end link bushings are sold separately and I cant tell what diameter those are to match up correctly.
Summit has nice kits made by Energy Suspension. They offer them in kits with complete end links. The Firebird/Camaro kits only seem to be offered in 30mm front and 19mm rear.
The kits only come with bushings/brackets for the front. Aren't there some sort of end links on the front bar as well? If anyone has already upgraded their bushings and can help- Thanks

Summit Racing Kits:
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...-5159R&FROM=MG
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...-5161R&FROM=MG
Old 03-26-2009, 02:52 PM
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Re: Sway bar poly bushing size?V6

Summit has responded to this with offering their universal bushings:

The smallest either Energy Suspension or Prothane list is the 30mm/19mm. The only way we have bushings for the smaller bar is there universal bushings with brackets.
http://store.summitracing.com/egnsea...115+4294907059
http://store.summitracing.com/egnsea...115+4294811489
The brackets may need modified to work on your bird.
Now there is still the end link issues. They only offer the rear end links with the rear kits. Their end links for the front bars are sold separately but I don't see them for the rear separately.
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

Does anyone know what diameter end links to use? I want to order them before removing the stock ones.

Here are J.C. Whitney's offering of end link poly bushings only:
http://www.jcwhitney.com/DEE-ENGINEE...3409_10101.jcw

Here is their universal bushings as well:
http://www.jcwhitney.com/DEE-ENGINEE...3409_10101.jcw
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Re: Sway bar poly bushing size?V6

Here is the information from the Energy Suspension website http://energysuspension.com/pages/pont1.html
The end links should be the same size for front and rear. Go to Summit Racing and type in ENS-9-8117G that is the number for the end links. Click on Application and they state it is the same for rear and front.
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Re: Sway bar poly bushing size?V6

Ok. Anyone else with a V6 and sway bars this size looking to stiffen up- here are the part links from Summit I believe will work! If you want them in black just substitute the last letter R with a letter G. These are the greaseable type too.
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...-5155R&FROM=MG
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...-5164R&FROM=MG
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...-8117R&FROM=MG (need pair for front and pair for rear)
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