dimlight65 Posted May 24 Report Share Posted May 24 (edited) So I was thinking about that front sway bar I made (I made/I had made... to-may-to/to-mah-to), specifically this picture... and I says to myself, "Self, we could 'Colin Chapman' this thing by making that sway bar do the job of the T/C rods too." A pair of sleeves to thread the non-Heim joint Heim joint thingies onto the ends of the bar, and then mount the bar to the frame normally. Then I remembered that I HATE when the sway bar doubles as the T/C rods. AND it would eliminate one of the "Cool Features" (AKA "Bullshit Excuses") of this design: being able to "easily" remove it for articulation. So, yeah... we won't be doing that. Edited May 24 by dimlight65 1 Quote Link to comment
dimlight65 Posted May 24 Report Share Posted May 24 On 5/16/2026 at 3:25 PM, dimlight65 said: I am 99.28734165% sure it is centered and that is a camera artifact. No, it was about 1/2" off somehow. John elongated the holes while I removed the front sway bar for paint. With the spoiler centered better, we started discussing end plates. What began as a joke, turned into a CAD template... which we liked enough to temporarily install the trunk lid... and see how it looked in situ... another copy of the CAD file was made... Oh yeah, I really like this. We're trying to decide on material now, fiberglass, carbon fiber, Lexan, or that black plastic we use for damned near everything at our shop. Stay tuned! 1 Quote Link to comment
dimlight65 Posted May 30 Report Share Posted May 30 On 5/9/2026 at 4:21 PM, dimlight65 said: We're going to paint it and the rear bar gold to "match" the T/C rods and rear control arms Which is what we did today. Front bar... and rear bar... New hardware for the mounts should arrive Monday, so they'll go back on the car next Saturday. Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted May 31 Report Share Posted May 31 I gotta say, those arm rests look pretty nice in gold, too! 🙂 Nice job! 2 Quote Link to comment
dimlight65 Posted May 31 Report Share Posted May 31 I've had a couple pairs of 620(?) mud flaps kicking around the shop for several years... So I gave them a test tickle to see if they might work on here... Hmm... promising. Ah, but there's a problem... The mounting holes are about 4" away from any metal of the car. Ok, a quick trip to the Home Depots got me a hunk 'o metal... off of which I cut a smaller hunk... only gashing my hand a little bit... That smaller bit 'o metal was bent... and drilled... to mount the flap... a couple more holes were drilled... and bolts were zooked in to make it a "One Me" installation... With the flap bolted back in place... I stepped back for a look-see... Ok, it's a little crooked, I think I can fix that. Let's pop the wheel back on... Kinda close, but doable. Oh, wait... Yeah, that's just not going to work, is it? I forgot that we widened the track that much. John and I will grok it some more next weekend but I'm afeared this was a waste of time. We'll see. Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted May 31 Report Share Posted May 31 Those flaps are pretty cool, either way. I never seen those before.. Quote Link to comment
iceman510 Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 If those fit a 620, I'll buy them from you...pretty please. Quote Link to comment
dimlight65 Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 We remounted the freshly gold painted sway bars today. Front... and rear... The rear fought us pretty hard because of the way all of the bushings and brackets had to align at weird angles... Oh, and someone had to go and buy some sort of "Super Kryptonian" nylock nuts and really long bolts which were a real PITA. Then we had a look at how to mount the high lift jack... After a test tickle, we decided we liked this spot. Two of the "roofies" were removed from the roof rack and marked for holes... Those were drilled out... to look like this... I know y'all are never going to believe me (because I wouldn't believe me either), but they are off center to align the brackets with the holes in the jack. Said brackets went on and the "Roofies" were reinstalled... The jack then goes on thusly... And I think it turned out pretty nice... We have a plan for fixing the mud flaps. So apologies to Iceman510, as it looks like we'll be using them after all. 3 Quote Link to comment
Dguy210 Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 Hmm, I hadn't actually known you could mount the swaybar to the strut rods in the front. This gives me some ideas to solve some engine swap issues with the sway bar I had. 3 Quote Link to comment
dimlight65 Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 21 minutes ago, Dguy210 said: Hmm, I hadn't actually known you could mount the swaybar to the strut rods in the front. This gives me some ideas to solve some engine swap issues with the sway bar I had. We just replicated what the factory did on the rear of the S110 200SX. We don't actually know if it is going to work... it should, but we don't know for a fact yet. 2 Quote Link to comment
iceman510 Posted June 8 Report Share Posted June 8 On 6/6/2026 at 4:05 PM, dimlight65 said: So apologies to Iceman510, as it looks like we'll be using them after all. No worries guys. 😉 1 Quote Link to comment
datsunfreak Posted June 8 Author Report Share Posted June 8 On 6/6/2026 at 9:49 PM, dimlight65 said: We just replicated what the factory did on the rear of the S110 200SX. We don't actually know if it is going to work... it should, but we don't know for a fact yet. I have the utmost confidence due to the fact that we are basically using attachment points that are extremely close to the factory attachment points. If anything, this should/could make the bar stiffer since we have moved said points slightly closer to each other. And like he said, this is how the factory rear bar works for the S110. And the scientifically accurate "see how easy it is to rock the car from side to side" test proved fruitful. 😁 3 Quote Link to comment
dimlight65 Posted Saturday at 08:11 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 08:11 PM So, when we last left our intrepid (or is it "insipid"?) heroes, the mud flap needed to move down a bit and rotate. New bracketry was mapped out... and made... The driver's side turned out ok, so it was hit with paint... and we moved on to the passenger side. That bracket needed to be bent the opposite direction (essentially making both identical rather than mirror images)... As Juan can see, we heated and rebent it. It went in and got painted as well. The final results... and from a distance... I think they turned out ok. So, of course we're thinking of making bigger ones to actually cover the whole tire and be truly effective rather than affective... as in, just an affectation... sort of thing. We'll see. 1 Quote Link to comment
dimlight65 Posted Sunday at 09:21 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 09:21 PM The battery master kill switch key... has a little lanyard on it. But I don't want it just hanging... when the car is parked. So I made a little hook... on the dash... to hang it... It didn't warp up the top as bad as the pictures make it appear. I promise. Yes, the lanyard will be pinched in the weather stripping, but it was going to be tossed inside and pinched like that anyway. Now there's a dedicated location for the key. As a bonus, it will be right there in front of my face when I am all strapped in after forgetting to turn it on. Quote Link to comment
dimlight65 Posted Sunday at 09:37 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 09:37 PM Since I am a serial post whore, I am doing this as a separate post. Juan might recall that I made an oil sump skid plate out of the catalytic converter heat shield from the Dajiban. It can be seen here... It was designed so that removal of two wing bolts at the rear allowed it to swing down to (almost) allow access to the oil drain plug. Unfortunately, the wicked cool Dimlight Racing Patent Pending front sway bar... is in the way. So, with a heavy heart (because it meant removing the one piece of the Dajiban on this project), I decided to remove it... I sat back and had a look at the now nekkid front end... and said, "Yeah, that's just not going to work for me." I hung it back up by the rear wing bolts and determined that with a slight bend, I could re-mount it lower... and it would clear the bar... As an added bonus, it now swings down a little further and is much more... almost out of the way for oil changes! 2 Quote Link to comment
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