[s-cars] Rear Sway Bar Brackets

[Elijahallen92 at aol.com]

I have a set of Johns brackets on the Avant and I can't imagine why anyone  
would go with the stock bracket when there is a nice one like his for sale.  
Think about it, your driving your car hard one day and your going to fast around 
 a corner, if that stock bracket breaks at that point it might unsettle the 
car  enough to loose control. Hmm, $50 is pretty cheap for that kind of 
insurance.  Thanks John,
 
Elijah




In a message dated 12/16/2004 11:51:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
j.n.tilden at comcast.net writes:

Hi  Cody,
Your photos look pretty familiar!
I guess it's time to storm the  files with my replacement brackets again.
It looks like enough time has  passed that some people have not heard about
my "Improved Rear Swaybar  Brackets".

Your photos tell the story, the original lower brackets for  the Rear Sway
Bar are adequate for the factory 17mm sway bars, but when you  put on a HRSB,
25 mm in diameter, these original brackets fail in a short  time due to
fatigue failure from repeated loads in excess of the original  design.

I have designed a more robust bracket which puts the mounting  bolt in double
shear and increases the amount of metal carrying the loads  into the rear
wheel carrier. Putting the bolt into double shear effectively  takes out the
bending moment which is likely what causes the original  bracket to fail.
Increasing the cross section of metal which now carries  primarily shear
loads further reduces the stresses in the new improved  bracket.

See the photos  at:
http://gallery.s-cars.org/uploads

In order:
1. View of the  kit and its contents
2. View of the Bracket assembled with the HRSB down  link and Bolts
3. View of Left side installation on my car (95.5  Avant)
4. View of Assembled bracket with a pair of broken factory  brackets.

Those of you who have installed a HRSB, these brackets  install in the same
manner that the factory brackets install. The Early  cars, '92 and the Avants
are bolt in as shown in photo 3 described above.  All other installations
will require some welding as the original brackets  did.

I have delivered about 15 sets to date to a number of listers, any  of you
who have installed a set feel free to comment. I have heard very  little
comment to date, how do they work for you?

If you are  interested in acquiring a set of these for your HRSB
installations please  feel free to inquire at the address noted below.
The price is $50.00 plus  shipping, UPS 3 day typically is less that $14.00
anywhere in the  US.
Foreign orders will be shipped by US Postal Mail  service.

Thanks,
John

John Tilden
Tilden Consulting  Services
2820 164th Ave N.E.
Bellevue WA 98008
(425) 881-2895  Office
(206) 240-5318  Mobile
j.n.tilden at comcast.net