My friend who also owns a 67 bought the Hotchkis rear sway bar for his 67. His car has both the right and left factory traction bars which he does not want to remove. The tech support for Hotchkis told him that he needs to remove the traction bars for the Hotchkis sway bar to fit. When looking underneath, it does not appear that the traction bars are in the way, but the brackets seem to block where the sway bar should attach.

Anyway, removing the factory traction bars are not an option and he already has the sway bar which he wants to install. Does anyone have any experience with rear swaybars on a 67 that can shed some light here? Is there a way for him to put the Hotchkis set on without removing the traction bars, and if not, does anyone know of a rear swaybar that will work without removing the traction bars.

Hopefully I got everything right he wanted me to ask and he will check here later to read up on any responses.

Thanks in advance...

Not sure about current bars, but HO Racing used to sell one that fit.
Maybe find out who made'm for them.

I put in the Hotchkis TVS setup, and had to remove the single traction bar on the passenger side, could not install it without removal. Waiting to see how the handling is once its running. Good luck, lots of great knowledge here, someone will have a suggestion.

Sounds like your friend needs to return his Hotchkis setup.

I am in this exact situation at the moment. After weighing all the pros and Cons, I personally decided to knife the OEM brackets off. Figured that with the multi-leaf conversion, Hotchkis Traction bar and Sway Bar Max Brace, I should be set. Worse comes to worse and still need something, I'll just add an under-the-leaf trac bar setup.

I did look at it six way of Sunday, and the only way woulb be to make some seriously higher saddles for the sway-bar. But even then you're gonna lose some benefit with the additional leverage. (Or would that be better?)

Man, I would have changed axles before I did that. '67 Firebird axles are one car only, one year only and kinda valuable to those restoring there cars to OEM.

You could have gotten a '68 or '69 rear axle already set up for multi-leaf and staggered shocks.

Problem with the 67 vs 68 is the drivers upper mount(trunk) bracket is in a different location.
Not sure hard hard it would be to mod.

In that case, I would use the '67 lower shock mount plates (non-staggered) with a '68 or '9 axle.

Good idea.

Back to the original post.
Before I'd even think of adding the sway bar I'd look at everything else first. New bushing, springs, subframe connectors, better shocks.
Unless all that's been done a sway bar will do nothing but add weight.

Plenty of debate out there on whether a rear sway bar actually does anything for a stock FGF suspension.