[s-cars] Apikol rear sway bar - installation question

[Eric Phillips]

> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:24:31 -0400
> From: "Tom Rodriguez" <trodri69 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [s-cars] Apikol rear sway bar - installation question
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> I have purchased an Apikol rear sway bar kit for my '95 S6.  My car does
> not
> have a factory-equipped rear sway bar.  The Apikol instructions require
> that
> I drill and tap a hole into each of the rear shock mount castings and use
> these new holes to secure the new sway bar brackets.  I'm looking for
> advice
> from anyone who has done this.  Is this a simple task or a PITA? Did you
> use
> a hand-held drill, and if so did you follow any special procedure to ensure
> the new hole is perpendicular to the face of the casting?  An alternative
> would be to remove the rear shock mount castings and drill the holes on a
> drill press, but this is a much more involved process that is not suggested
> in Apioko's instructions.
>
>
Tom,

When I installed mine, I used my hand-held drill and drilled the holes by
eye.  I did not feel it needed to be perfectly perpendicular to the shock
mount.  It was pretty close, and you can't tell once the machine screw is
set.  With the ass-end of the car in the air and the wheel off, you can sit
in the wheel well and drill and tap comfortably.  Tapping the holes was
boring, but dead-simple.  While drilling and tapping was the most difficult
part of the install, that's really not saying much.  The whole process was
really an easy Saturday afternoon, and was really no sweat.  And the
results are so worth the effort.  The performance gain you get from the
money spent is pretty darn good, IMO.

Eric