Update by Tim Suddard to the
Austin-Healey Sprite project car
Jun 6, 2023
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Austin-Healey,
Moss Motors,
anti-roll bar,
Bugeye Sprite,
Austin-Healey Sprite,
The Winner's Cricle
Photography by Tim Suddard
Early Sprites have a tendency to oversteer. Unlike later Sprite and Midgets, our Bugeye didn’t come from the factory with a front anti-roll bar.
Adding a ¾-inch front anti-roll bar helps eliminate the oversteer. The Winner’s Circle makes a kit that mounts easily to an early Sprite.
The kit includes the anti-roll bar, mounting brackets, end links, mounting plates, adjustable spherical bearing end links and directions to put everything together.
Once you get the bar centered on the car’s frame, you can lubricate the mounting brackets with some white grease and bolt them to the frame. Our replacement front frame rails, purchased from Moss Motors, already threaded mounting holes in the frame.
With the bar in place, we mounted the end links and attached them to the plates for test fitting. Once we had the end links fairly vertical (where they will work best), we marked the location for the plates on the lower A-arms.
We then drilled the required holes and mounted the plates, substituting the hardware that came with the kits with Grade 8 hardware that we sourced locally. (With hindsight being 20/20, we might have welded these plates in place before powder coating and assembling our front end.)
The final step was to attach the end links. We will have to go back in and adjust them once we have the car finished and on the ground to get the two sides even and build a bit of pre-load into the end links for best performance.
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