Cobra Tie Bar For XKE Rear End Availability ?

[Jim Coleman]

Saw this photo and wondered if anyone knows if they are still available.

Thanks,

Jim

[Snake2998]

Should be really easy and cheap to get these laser or water cut.
Just find a contact who has items regularly laser or water cut so you don't have to pay the minimum charge.

[strictlypersonl]

Here's one of many sources:
https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Jagua...lain,7739.html
Google is your friend...

[Jim Coleman]

Thanks,

I saw the ones Speedway sells, and even thought about cutting a stencil
on my vinyl cutter and sandblasting a piece of aluminum to make it.........

Easier to buy it -- if it's available.

Jim

[spdbrake]

It appears CWI Inc (original fabricators of that link) is defunct.
Jaguar IRS tie link..
and here
CWI Jag IRS parts
Domain is dead
C.W.I. - Suspension - Parts and Accessories

[Karl Bebout]

Other than being pretty nifty looking, does this make improvement?

A few years ago, I helped a friend install a very nice, and pricy, Watts linkage that seemed to make his car just squat and get, on hard acceleration.

[legenmetals]

I will be fabricating a rear bracket on my car that will locate from the rear LCA fulcrum shafts and a stainless plate that attaches to the diff side brackets to a vertical bracket at the rear that will attach to a cross member that I welded onto the chassis.

Because of the toe in adjustment on your car, the rear tie bar holes that are pre drilled by CWI in their tie bar may not align with the fulcrum bars on your car. Toe in is set using horse shoe shims behind the diff brackets. What is the rear width measurement of the rear fulcrum bars on your car?

I have a CWI tie bar that I won't be using for this reason.

I think my idea will add greater support to the rear of the LCA.

[joyridin']

I would look at doing something like this that links the shafts and the brackets together. If you want to stencil it, you can easily do it on the back, but nobody would ever see it. This is just a 1/4" aluminum plate that has been rolled and drilled to match the mounting holes and fulcrum shafts.

[Jim Coleman]

Thanks, Guys --

It was just something I thought looked neat, but if it's not seen
wouldn't be worth the effort.

Jim

[strictlypersonl]

Originally Posted by Jim Coleman

Thanks, Guys --

It was just something I thought looked neat, but if it's not seen
wouldn't be worth the effort.

Jim

I highly recommend the tie-bar. The brackets alone (bolted to the differential case) were never designed to take the full toe-stress from acceleration. That force was absorbed into the original sub-frame. In addition, as installed in the Jag (with trailing arms) the stress on the inner pivots is only about 1/3 of what it is without the trailing arms.

[Jim Coleman]

Thanks to CJ428CJ I now have a Cobra Tie Bar !