GTC,
Interesting... I hadn't seen a set ot 356 torsion bars before... I just assumed they were like the 911 / 912's... guess i shouldn't assume.
Most of my the replies are pretty general... like "i wouldn't do that" I was hoping someone would post some data backing up the claims or say, hey, I did it and this happened...
Like I posted before I have a set that are damaged so I have 4 ends I can try and see what happens. That's the route I'm going to take for now.
I have a local machine shop I've used on a number of occasions that does really good work so I may speak with them before jumping in with my good set, No matter the results I get with the damaged pair I'm going to experiment on...