{"id":225,"date":"2008-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-14T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:54:28","slug":"bel-airbig-sway-bar-and-qa-1s-fitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Big Sway Bar and QA-1’s Fitted"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t updated the site in months, but I’ve still been working on the car. The Optispark distributor died (at the same time the one on the Camaro did as well, just to make matters worse). I had to take all the accessory drive off to get at it. With it all back together, and a small leak fixed, I got back to working on the car. I wasn’t happy with the way it handled even with the swaybar fitted. I decided to replace the swaybar with a Hellwig one, and put QA-1’s on the front as well. The Hellwig bar is much beefier than the old one, and had much better fixings to put it together. After a lot of messing about, I gave up on trying to get it fitted with the A arm brackets and use the ones I made for the old bar. \"SwayBarsTogether.jpg\" With that done I pulled the old springs and shocks out, and drilled out the A arms for the QA-1 bottom mounts. I ground the rest of the old nuts flat and fitted them on the lowest setting. Unfortunately I crushed a brake hose while I was doing it, so I needed to replace and bleed the brakes. It was so low I couldn’t get the jack under the frame, so I bought a C spanner to raise it back up. I wound them up about an inch a side (I measured with a bolt as I couldn’t get the calipers in there). With it back on the deck, and the brakes bled I took it out for a spin. It handles a million times better now, but the brakes still have air in them so need bleeding again. Progress at last. \"QA1s.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t updated the site in months, but I’ve still been working on the car. The Optispark distributor died (at the same time the one on the Camaro did as well, just to make matters worse). I had to take all the accessory drive off to get at it. With it all back together, and a small leak fixed, I got back to working on the car. I wasn’t happy with the way it handled even with the swaybar fitted. I decided to replace the swaybar with a Hellwig one, and put QA-1’s on the front as well. The Hellwig bar is much beefier than the old one, and had much better fixings to put it together. After a lot of messing about, I gave up on trying to get it fitted with the A arm brackets and use the ones I made for the old bar. \"SwayBarsTogether.jpg\" With that done I pulled the old springs and shocks out, and drilled out the A arms for the QA-1 bottom mounts. I ground the rest of the old nuts flat and fitted them on the lowest setting. Unfortunately I crushed a brake hose while I was doing it, so I needed to replace and bleed the brakes. It was so low I couldn’t get the jack under the frame, so I bought a C spanner to raise it back up. I wound them up about an inch a side (I measured with a bolt as I couldn’t get the calipers in there). With it back on the deck, and the brakes bled I took it out for a spin. It handles a million times better now, but the brakes still have air in them so need bleeding again. Progress at last. \"QA1s.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bel-air","category-chassis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}