Ok folks here is the update from ATI, sorry for the delay but sometimes the best intentions can't get decisions made or product out the door.
The short answer is this, it is just not feasible for ATI to produce a 15/16 or 24mm, heat treated, powder coated anti sway bar and keep it both profitable and affordable.
The company I was in discussions with to manufacture the bar was ADDCO so if you are interested the Group Buy with Auto-X Fil it should be the same quality we could deliver. They quoted me to bend the bar at approximately $54/bar. But that was a raw bent bar, not heat treated or powder coated. This was not the big cost factor though it was always the material and shipping around the country. ADDCO was not interested in coating the bar or heat treating it, so that meant we needed to source those processes somewhere else and that added shipping costs to the total, and they add up quick. ATI was also on the line to purchase a large amount of material, far above the amount neede to make a run of 150 to 200 bars.
ADDCO said that their processes do not require a heat treat to keep bar strenght, but the engineers here were adamant that this step was nessesary for long product life.
Powder coating is a very affordable process, but shipping to and from the supplier just added to the bottom line. If you get the bar from ADDCO it should come coated. But again since they would not heat treat the bars I had to source this process closer to home.
Since the bar specifications did not include 1" material I never quoted that as an option. 15/16" material was not significantly cheeper than the 24mm material.
Rick and I are disappointed that we could not fulfill this need, we were really hoping to come through for you folks again like we did on the Subframes.
so should i not upgrade my sway bar now?? i havent been able to find too much info on the subframe connectors in here cuz hardly anybody has them. 