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It's one of my Gen 2 cars for sure, but someone has put a lot of time into aluminum and aftermarket parts. I think I see some old parts from Dario and I don't think he's sold parts for 15 years now... nicely done.
Lotta co0ol stuff but that rear swaybar is a felony.
Two rod-end bearing connections on each side of the sway bar - what could go wrong?
Someone went to the trouble to install Porsche valve covers, but usee an EMPI oil breather box - not that there is anything wrong with that. My untrained eye noticed a few things in the engine bay that didn’t seem to square with the body work.
The story that I heard is that this car was once owned by the mechanic who now stores it. A woman had another car at his garage for service, saw his 550 and asked if it was for sale - she wanted it. He didn’t really want to sell it so he throw out a high price. Later, she paid her bill and added the sales price to her payment and told the mechanic ‘ok I just bought your Spyder’. 😂. He probably cried a little and decided to sell it to her for the price he stated. Some time later, after two close calls where her car came close to being stolen from her garage she asked the mechanic if he could store it for her, which is where it has been sitting.
@edsnova posted:Lotta co0ol stuff but that rear swaybar is a felony.
It's a death-wish. It's how you can say goodby to your loved ones (and make sure they can collect on your life insurance) in style.
@Stan Galat posted:It's a death-wish. It's how you can say goodby to your loved ones (and make sure they can collect on your life insurance) in style.
Nope.
@Jon T posted:Two rod-end bearing connections on each side of the sway bar - what could go wrong?
Lots of OEMs (and race cars) use rod ends for drop links. I use them on our (Randy's) 904 front and rear, and have since '07 with some serious track time and zero issues. Granted, the execution above is VERY homemade and I won't say anything about the bent all thread.... and I prefer to put the upper heims in shear through the side of the sway bar personally, but I bet they hold up fine and work well.
How is this a Z-bar now?
Here's a sway bar "for swing axles" which looks like
Here's what I was led to believe a Z bar looks like. (Note the Z shape!)
Sorry, Ed. I stand corrected.
In my defense, it was first thing in the morning and coffee hadn't set in yet ! LOL!
In IMG 9108(LR 3/4 view clamshell open) my foggy eyes mistook the Beck frame for the Z-bar.
Sorry, gents.
To be clear here, a sway bar on a swingaxle is not a good thing. Using rod ends on a sway bar is fine.