help me out guys: 84 vs. 86 WS6 swaybars from junkyard
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help me out guys: 84 vs. 86 WS6 swaybars from junkyard
first off, thanks for looking at my post. next.... here is the story. i went up to the pick-a-part nearest to me and found what i believe is a ws6 84 t/a (had disc brake rear end). i said "what the hell, i'll pull the sway bars from it" (look at the body roll in my sig pic). i come back the next day, lo and behold...there is an 86 t/a with the magical code WS6 on the rpo sheet. so... now comes my question: is there a significant performance difference between these bars? is it worth going back and returning the ones i've pulled for the 86's? thanks again.
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The 86 WS6 bars should be larger. But to be sure, measure your 84 bars and see. 87 -up WS6 are 36mm and 24mm.
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How does it go...? Wasn't '84 the last year for a solid 32mm bar? I have a rear bar off of an '84 trans am (along with it's 3.73/posi/disc axle!) and it was a 23mm rear bar.
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GM kept upping the WS6 sway bars just about every year till 87 when they got the 36/24mm combo. I guess their engineers felt that was the best combo for the street.
25mm and smaller rear bars are avail so you can taylor the over/understeer characteristics to suit your individual needs without having to use a smaller front bar.
25mm and smaller rear bars are avail so you can taylor the over/understeer characteristics to suit your individual needs without having to use a smaller front bar.
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