Build thread - Resurrection of an old Contemporary

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Originally Posted by ccx1984

Doug that rear sway bar looks nice, where did you find it . can you have a sway bar and a watts set at the same time. can that type of sway bar be used on the front. by the way your car is looking great, wish i could get back to work on mine.

Pete,
Thanks, it's good to hear from you. I measured everything for the sway bar and ordered it from Speedway Engineering. including the arms, it was about $200 or so. I ordered the radius rods from Day Motorsports, and you can get the heim ends anywhere. You can run the Watts link and sway par together. Do you have the holes for the sway bar mount drilled on your frame? I didn't so I had to locate the mounts based on measurements provided by other Contemporary owners. It gets tricky for clearance, especially on the drivers side. The arms for the sway bar have to thread their way between the outer roll bar mount above and the Watts link bracket below. The later Contemporary's had both sway bar and Watts link, so it's easy, you just need to get everything located correctly. As with everything else with my car it was a challenge, because my car came with NO rollbar, NO sway bar, and NO Watts link. I have located the rollbar mount and sway bar as accurately as I can. There is absolutely no room for error on the Watts link mount, it has to be located with extreme precision or the geometry is off and it'll bind and snap bolts like crazy. As for the front sway bar, Speedway Engineering can fab you up whatever you need, just give them accurate measurements. Good luck, it's lots of work, but it should all be enjoyable in the end.
Doug