Are these beautiful or what?

Are these beautiful or what? Now with Install pics

Well on Monday I ordered new rear lower control arms for my Custom Cruiser. I want this car to handle even better than it currently does which is pretty darn well. And in order to do this I need a rear swaybar. Now there are options out there for swaybars but most rear bars are so big they almost require a new front bar. And I am not yet at that point. So I needed another option, and I found it with these Metco billet aluminum LCA's. With these you can mount a stock sedan rear swaybar. They figured out that all one needed to do was to move the mounting holes further forward on the arms. You will notice that there are 3 holes on each arm for swaybars. The 2 most rear holes are for the wagon bar and the 2 most forward ones are for the sedan bar. These LCA's are truely beautiful.

 

Sweet.. Now pictures of the install....

 

Now don't frame them, ok? The wagon gets those. You can adjust your own sway later.

So the aluminum can take all that twisting and torquing? I never thought of aluminum as a low fatigue metal. Go figure.

 

Norman stop yer droolin,yer getting my keyboard wet.

 

Ok I am back after the install and I am beaten and bruised. The arms were tough to get off. Seems GM thought it was a good idea to put the forward mounting bolts in thru the boxed frame. What a pain. But I got it all done. Here is the bar with the channel that slips into the frame rail.

And a close up of the channel

And the bar without. This is all I will need to bolt it to the Metco arms besides their hardware.

Now some pics of just the Metco arms mounted.




And with the swaybar mounted

 

Its a shame those are hidden from view, they are just too pretty to not show off.

 

They look Great.

 

Stick - Does Metco offer a similar setup for the later '90 - '96 B-body wagons, Caprice, CC, RMW?

 

It should be the same KK

 

They are all the same. The chassis were all the same basically from 77-96. So yea these arms would fit.

http://www.metcomotorsports.com/proddetail.asp?prod=MCA0012&cat=94

 

From reading the ImpalaSS forum, I understand that the sedan rear axle housing / control arm setup is different than the wagon's. Wagons apparently didn't come with a sway bar. There's some tricks that guys have used (including using a bar from a Crown Vic), but a company like Metco could do a whole bolt-in setup - just need specific LCA's like yours that would allow the sedan bar to be used.

I guess what I'm asking is the kit you bought '77 - '89 'box' specific, or will it fit the bubble wagons as well?

 

Check the link in my previous post. It says for B-body wagons 82-96.

 

Yeah, it is a shame those will be hidden, they look great,

 

I haven't heard these mentioned over there have you KK?

 

Not that I'm aware of (until Stick's post), but then again, I haven't gone through every thread there, either........