C'mon guys, this is serious serious stuff.. quit fooling around.. someone could get hurt with that kind of false information. Kevi Marti might also start releasing some bad reports if we're not careful with our "facts". Plus, two cool things could happen here. 1. If we can figure all this out maybe someone can start selling upside down Granada sway bars to the Mustang guys, eh? Would be nice to have the shoe on the other foot for a change and sell them "our secret Maverick part". 2. At the very least.. we might prevent some other members car from flipping in a hard corner because the upside down sway bar got the suspension all confused.
Yeah.. you have to flip the Granada swaybar back into the upright position to get it to fit that particular year. '68 - '77... upside down orientation '78 - '84.. rightside up orientation I know this for a "FACT" because my brothers car is a '78 with an 427 SOHC motor in it from the factory. Only year they put the 6 speed in these cars.. and last year Ford made that motor too. Kar Kraft did all the chassis/motor conversions before Carroll Shelby had them start doing all the Vipers for Mitsubishi. At least that's what Carroll told me when he came over to my house for dinner.
I put a upside down 66 Camaro bar on my Maverick. I know it sounds crazy but everytime I take off from a light my car pulls wheelies now!! I can hardly keep the front wheels on the ground.
That's because you installed it upside down. If you would have installed it right side up the torque would be transferred towards the ground keeping your front end down. The main cause for this is when you flip the sway bar upside down it narrows 2 plus inches do to the gravitational and elevation changes in it's characteristics.
Well hell.. wish someone would have told me this year's ago. Could have saved tons of rear suspension traction cash by just putting Camaro front sway bars on the backs of all my old cars.
It only works with a 1966 camaro sway bar on a Maverick. The torque ratio fits perfectly with the weight of our cars.