71 T targa rear sway bar

[Jrsully]

have a stock 71 T Targa that did not come with any sway bars originally. Purchased an original rear 15mm bar set up that I had planned to install, but it looks likes my original rear trailing arms MAY not have the round mounting ball bosses on them.? My question is, IF no bars were ordered when car was new, would the trailing arms have these ball mount bosses deleted or were all the trailing arms (for 71 at least) provisioned for bars whether you ordered them or not.? Thx for the help

[pu911rsr]

Not sure about 71 but I don't believe that the trailing arms had any provisions for mounting sway bars if car did not have factory installed bars.
Phil

[Rusty]

I have a 71E without rear sway, the trailing arms have a flat area and slight detention where the sway bar ball areinserted. I purchased the pins and right sway bar bracket for the chassis to install the rear sway bar.

[Jrsully]

So you can install a factory sway bar with adding the ball/pins etc.?

[smedley]

The ball pins are available from Porsche as are the body plates. Both can be welded in.
Back in the day my first 911, a '70T, did not have sway bars. The dealer in Indianapolis, Kline, installed them for me. I got to watch the entire process. Many years later I purchased another car, '69T, without sway bars that had an earlier "dealer kit" sway bar installation in '69. This was very unique and totally different from the '70 dealer installation. There were large aluminum blocks screwed into the crotch of the trailing arm with the ball pins screwed into the blocks. The body brackets were attached to the body by 4mm allen bolts with nuts through holes drilled into the pinch weld adjacent to the plate. Very wierd. The original owner told me he had ordered the car without swaybars due to cost. When the car came in he had some extra cash and asked the dealer to install the bars before he picked up the car! I later welded all the key bits tossing the wierd threaded pieces when I purchased the car.

It would be interesting if anyone out there has seen a similar unique dealer installation of sway bars.