The Dodge Challenger Message Board

I recently upgraded my diff to 8.75 and have a chance to add the rear sway bar. Is there anything special about adding it or does it bolt on without any modification?

2 weeks away from driving this thing out of the shop and out on a regular basis!!

Here's a picture of the stock bar I added to mine. Some say add a tube between the frame channel for extra support. So far no problems without them.

Are you running a front bar Chuck? If not dont add a rear unless you really like mental amounts of oversteer

Yes, I've got a front sway bar.

Adrian-

I've noticed the rear is sitting a bit low (most likely tired springs) and I have fresh OEM shocks installed. My friend told me I could add a spring kit to the existing shocks to help out a bit- seeing as I don't want air shocks and am not ready to fork out the $$ for new leaf springs yet.

Any recommendations?

Get the existing springs re-tempered and re-shaped to the correct shape. Its usually much cheaper.

Also you should never use air shocks or coil-over shocks on the rear of a opar unless you add a lot of re-enforcment to the upper shock mounts and frame.

I talked to a spring shop about rearching mine but decided against it. They said the springs would probably sag back down soon after rearching. (no one around here re-tempers springs...they would have just reshaped them to get the desired height) What you can do that's cheap is to add an extra spring to the spring pack. Back in the 90's that was done to my car. The front/rear eyelets were cut off a junk yard main leaf then added to the stock spring pack. It raised the back end a couple inches. That would get you by until you buy new springs.

No one re-tempers? Wow. Even here in the UK where most heavy engineering has vanished you can still find these places. Trucks break springs all the time and need repair shops.

Look for spring repairs and manufacturers. They do it for you. Unless you guys get it ALL done in Mexico and China these days?

Daves right Chuck, get em retempered, I wouldn't bother with cheap replacement springs, they're shit.
Unless you want a true performance spring in which case go straight to FirmFeel, SpringsNThings or Hotchkis

What's a fair estimate for retempering?

Probably a quarter the cost of new springs.

Some dimensions for you that might help.

http://www.generalspringkc.com/Leaf_Spr ... s/1927.htm

Damn. I thought that link gave you the measurement of the spring camber. It doesn't does it.

Cost of OEM Replacement Leaf Springs from a Dodge parts house $219.00
So re-tempering should run about $60.00?