Re: Rear Anti-Roll Bar Mounting Brackets
[quote="mark h"I don,t think the idea of fitting to engine frame will be very easy are look very good because engine frame is not symmetrical and mounts to bulkhead much further from centre line of car than where d bush clamps need to be[/quote]
I was thinking about this some more today and opened up the rear clam to investigate and you are dead right - mounting the ARB to the engine frame near the tub is a non-starter, but... ..it looks like fixing the bar mountings at the rear of the engine frame with the lever arms coming forwards could be an option. There are some vertical faces on the gussets where the boot supports are that look ideal on mine (but my exhaust arrangement seems different to everyone else's so might not work for everyone.) The straight bar could fix there. There would be around 100mm more free bar on the nearside as the frame is not central on the car. The levers would come forward circa 330mm to the line of the bottom mounting of the rear shocks. This looks about the same horizontal distance as the normal GTM bar would be from the pivot on the bulkhead to the same point so should give the same leverage. Much shorter drop links though and there seems to be plenty of space on both sides. I couldn't find an obvious hole for the drop links to fix to - do they piggyback the shock bolt?
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