1962-64 Cobra Stabilizer Bar Mounting

[MAStuart]

Here is another picture of the sway bar mounts. Not sure who's picture it is. These are on one of the original coupes. You can see how they support the sway bar closer to the bends of the bar.

Mark

[1795]

Positioning the supports closer to the bends in the stabilizer bar would limit how far the stabilizer bar can shift under hard cornering. The rubber bushings hold fairly well, but they will allow for some travel of the sway bar. In addition, having the bushings spaced that far out also provides more stability and stiffness to the sway bar.

[rsk289]

So, if I'm reading this right, a late '65 car (Sept - Dec, maybe) would have most likely had the half-round bushes and clamps. If that's right, does anyone have a likely source for these with rubber bushes, not poly?

Roger

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by rsk289

So, if I'm reading this right, a late '65 car (Sept - Dec, maybe) would have most likely had the half-round bushes and clamps. If that's right, does anyone have a likely source for these with rubber bushes, not poly?

Roger

Roger, Adjust your time frame thinking to circa mid December 1964 through circa June 1966. SAI didn't just finish the last Cobra one day and start others the next. Circa December 1964 the new MUSTANG GT350 and competition 427 COBRA got most of the attention. There were not many brand new Cobra chassis left as December 1964 came around but there were some and a few are listed in the Registry as getting some type front stabilizer bar. The only 'late to be finished' one I have personally seen, and when seen had not been cleaned up yet from decades of use, was CSX2497 that was sent out in it final new car form in September 1965.

[Dan Case]

Somebody with a set of "rounded" hardware not on a car contacted me. The original owner of a 427 Cobra ordered a front stabilizer bar kit post delivery and this is what he was sent and he used on the car.