SPF GT Front Sway Bar Clearance

[Lynn Miner]

The SPF GT40 (like all GT40s) suffers from very low ground clearance. This is especially true of the Heim Joints that connect the front sway bar to the lower A-arms. As delivered, the car has standard "off the shelf" Heim joints that are longer than they need to be. by performing this mod you can pick up another 3/4"+ in clearance at the front. As seen in the photos below, these joints are the first thing to get whacked if you hit something. Every fraction of an inch counts. The pictures are in chronological order and the entire process took about two hours.

A few cautions: Leave at least 5 threads on both the male and female portions of the joints. I did all the work on a lathe. A hack saw would work but you won't get as clean a job and cutting the nuts thinner would be difficult but not impossible.

One additional idea given by Rick Glover is to weld the arm to the sway bar shaft (last photo). The arm mounts to the shaft on splines. Rick did this because he hit something on the road stripping all the splines off the shaft. I elected to not do this because something has to give and I can always do this mod later if required (after I've stripped the splines off mine). Welding these parts together has no impact on assembly or disassembly because the entire sway bar drops out with 4 bolts.