Spohn Adjustable Panhard Bar w/Del-Sphere Pivot Joint/Poly

Replace the factory's weak, stamped steel, rubber bushed, flexible panhard bar with one of our heavy duty adjustable set-ups! It allows for centering the rear end after lowering and is the best component for serious handling performance. It allows for alignment of the rear end for clearance when running larger tires and greatly increases the rear end's lateral stability. This combo ended panhard bar will still wipe out most bind yet keep the road noise increase minimal for a street driven car. The Del-Sphere pivot joint provides for "bind-free" handling performance. The fluted polyurethane bushed end is mounted onto the chassis (floor) mount for maximum road noise insulation.

The panhard bar bushings on F-Body vehicles have a significant impact on your vehicle's ride, comfort, handling, acceleration, noise and vibration. When the vehicle leans (rolls) in a turn, one side of the chassis moves up relative to the rear axle and the other side moves down.

The panhard bar must twist to allow for the axle to articulate, this causes the panhard bar bushings to bind. If this bind becomes excessive, it will raise the rear wheel rate and produce sudden and uncontrolled changes in handling such as snap oversteer.

The factory minimizes this suspension bind by using compliant rubber bushings. These soft bushings help accommodate the necessary motion of the panhard bar during body roll. However, the rubber bushings do not provide much in the way of positive lateral support.

It is common to replace the stock rubber panhard bar bushings with polyurethane bushings to resolve the shortcomings of the factory's soft rubber bushings. The downside of polyurethane bushings is they prevent the necessary movement of the panhard bar during body roll, which in turn produces significant binding in the suspension when the vehicle is cornering.

The polyurethane bushings also place high stresses on the panhard bar mounts on the vehicle. Polyurethane bushed panhard bars do not allow for rotation of the panhard bar during cornering because of the stiffness of the bushings.