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[brookstroutr]

Does any one know if the sway bars from a Milano Verde (3.0 ltr) are a good, albeit mild, upgrade for my '84 GTV6? It looks like the exisating bars are 20 mm Front and 22 mm Rear. Are thes the original sizes for these cars. I haven't been successfull in locating this info anywhere. Also, does anyone know the actual bar sizes for the Milano Verde bars?

[zambon]

My verde has 24mm in front and 21mm in back. I believe that verdes are equiped with 21, 22, or 23mm bars in back. Not sure which is most common.
james

[Jose_76]

Yes, fit that Milano Verde's 24mm front sway bar in your GTV6 and you'll note the difference . It's a good and straightforward upgrade and it's not radical at all.

[Barry]

The best "std" upgrade I have found was the 1980 and thereabouts 2000 Alfetta super frnt sway bar..Cannot remember the dia. but it was the biggest I could find off a std Alfa..We also did not get the 75 here,so would not know if its any bigger or not---

Barry

[Reale]

The 24mm front bar will improve the handling on your Milano. The 27mm "Shankle" bar is also good, if you can get it. Don't bother putting a stiffer rear swaybar on the car-it will make the car handle worse, not better. In fact, for my race car, I am considering putting a thinner rear bar on. A stiffer one made my car push, and then abruptly switch to oversteer. I put the stock bar back on. Obviously, there are different philosophies about the spring/swaybar combination. Just saying what works for me.
-Al

[MD]

So Al, what bars are you using front and rear now? Do you have coil overs or just torsion bars?

[Zamani]

I have the Verde front sway bar. I might wanna sell it (going with Shankles). Let me know if you are interested (and if I can make up my mind to sell it or not).

[Reale]

Right now I am using a 0.120" wall hollow front swaybar (Speedway engineering), and the stock GTV6 rear.
I can't use coilovers in my race series, so I had 33mm front torsion bars made. I modified the lower coil perch in the back so I can use 11" "stock car" springs. 200 lb/inch seems to work well for me back there.
I was using Koni yellows, but am currently switching over to double adjustable Ledas with remote reservoirs.
BTW, if you cut a couple of revolutions off the stock rear springs it helps the ride height, and increases the rate to about 175lb/in. Obviously, it will only accentuate the ridiculous stock front ride height, so you would definitely need to fix that.
-Al