T3 front swaybar sr20 and JBC crossmember

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T3 front swaybar sr20 and JBC crossmember

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T3 has a sr20 front sump swaybar now


Anyone tried it and with jbc crossmember?
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I do I have the JBC V3. The swaybar isn't mounted yet as I have to still weld the mounts, but I can probably answer your questions.
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ive already bought it and its installed- norm has his installed and driving see funwithmonkeys thread for feedback
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Are you referring to this one: https://technotoytuning.com/nissan/510/ ... waybar-510
I had bought a front sway bar on ebay for my KA swap but it won't fit unless I grind down the old series McKinney cross member.
For that reason, I'm considering buying the new T3 bar but was curious about the design... are there performance trade-offs?
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Yep that’s the one Funwithmonkeys has. To be comparable to a 1” solid bar in the stock location, the front mounted bar needs to be quite a bit larger. Something like 1.375 tubular or 1.25” solid.

I had to drop my 1” sway bar when I installed the JBC stuff and repositioned the engine so I am interested in building some blade style bars that are comparable in stiffness to what I had...
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well jordan i have 2 here that you can copy the blade design off-- speedway makes quite a few "bars" and also some splined ends- this was a good starting point and better than "nothing" literally.. the solid mounting plates that T3 makes are nice and i believe would work with a larger bar- it would be nice if they make a larger bar for those of us with 300# front springs but thats not yet - and i have enough other things to do on these so messing around with fabricating swaybars isnt a priority yet -
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I can confirm what Jordan said. The bar fits very well. Is easy to install and works well. It just needs to be bigger. I have had it out quite a bit now and on my car at least it is not stiff enough. A 1.25 solid bar in that location would probably be in the sweet spot. I'm going to look at the speedway bars soon.
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Standard T3 product IMO......
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With the TC rod to sway bar clearance being an issue on extremely lowered cars, FutoFab looked into making a similar forward mounted sway bar.

What we found was when you double the length of the arms, you need to increase the torsional strength of bar by roughly 4 times.

To match torsional strength of our 1 1/8" sway bar, the forward mounted sway bar diameter needed to be over 1 3/4".

Drawing from T3's online info, assumptions and my own vehicle measurements (all very non-scientific) my calculations put the T3 bar as being equivalent to a stock position bar with a diameter between 5/8" to 3/4".

Here is a link to a handy sway bar torsional strength calculator.
http://www.gtsparkplugs.com/Sway-Bar-Calculator.html
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speedway has their own calculator as for arm length and thickness-- i would tend to believe what their ratings are-- my real race car has a speedway hollow 1.25" and i think its 3/16"? id have to check - it also has arms that are at least 15" long as the swaybar is mounted behind the cylinder head ..

im pretty sure that a 1.25" od bar will get to the stiffness required based on the arm length -

either way i wasnt able to figure out 100% if the futofab bar works on the JBC crossmember - and no one could seem to give me the answer.
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futofab bar does not work.
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Has any one made a bigger bar? Or know where you can purchase a bigger bar to use so its stiff enough. Thank you.
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I am currently putting together a 1.25 solid and a 1.125 solid. I should have tested them out by next month.
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funwithmonkeys wrote: 07 Apr 2021 08:49 I am currently putting together a 1.25 solid and a 1.125 solid. I should have tested them out by next month.
Dude thats awesome! Cant wait for the updates.
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let see it!
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