Wire/rod for homemade sway bars?
 

If I wanted to mess around with making some DIY sway bars, does anyone know what type of wire/rod I should use? Has anyone else made their own, and if so what did you use?

I have been looking at some suppliers online, but there are a ton of different types of steel and other alloys and I don't know what to use? I'd like to be able to bend it without heating, and have it retain shape, but if heating with a torch will work better I can do that too.

piano wire...



nuff said

All of the sway bars I've seen are very hard. I couldn't bend them without them breaking. They are probably high carbon steel rod, maybe 1095, which is bent before being hardened. That's my guess.

Have you ever used this? Will it hold it's shape without hardening it?

yes iv made swaybars from piano wire before it holds its shape with out heat treating it