Sway Bar Upgrading Questions

[Storm-Chaser]

:bestpost:

 

[bubba]

I'm auto and I want to run 24/26 combo on my sho. I've been reading this book my friend gave me to read.

It's on steering,suspension,and alignment book. I'm working on my own alignment for my sho for those hard runs. aka devil's hollow

 

[1993MTXSHO]

Unfortunately, I know that one. One of the worst movies involving cars and racing ever made. did the same thing for circle track racing that Top Gun did for fighter jets...

Hmmm, upon reflection, that could be where my inate hatred of NASCAR :zoom:comes from...


Mmmmm, I can feel the flames from my last comment already...

I love that movie, one of my favorite movies of all time

 

[SolidState]

Funny story relating to this. I was trouble shooting a clunk in the front end and removed my sway bar links. essentially a 0mm/26mm setup. The front was allllll over the place in turns, and one night coming home last week, I entered an off-ramp at a high rate of speed and remember at the last moment I had no front sway bar. Thank god for the Cobras up front!

I have a 24/26 setup and I get a bit tail happy in lift-throttle instances. I think the 22mm would only make this worse on my car...

 

[whiteguy3]

For the most part I want to feel a stiffer ride and feel a tighter car on turns. Hypothetically, I don't want to have my passengers reaching for the doors to hold themselves when I'm taking turns on the highway at 75mph....:laugh_ti:

 

[JEM]

For the most part I want to feel a stiffer ride and feel a tighter car on turns. Hypothetically, I don't want to have my passengers reaching for the doors to hold themselves when I'm taking turns on the highway at 75mph....:laugh_ti:

My 3/4-ton Suburban can take turns on the highway at 75mph. And I've got the old Flofit seats that came out of my '89 Mustang in it, great side bolstering and nice grippy fabric, so for the most part no one needs to grab for the doors.

Seriously, though, there can be a big difference between 'feel' and 'balance'. In seven or eight-tenths real-world driving most people want to feel understeer, it's reassuring ("tighter"). That's what the stock early SHO 24/26 combo gives you.

When you're actually going fast enough that you care about how much slip angle each corner of the car is generating, you're trying to make the rear of the car do more of the work so that the whole car drifts smoothly out of the exit of the corner (instead of just plowing nose-first using up the front tires) and you need to keep the inside front wheel on the ground to get power down, that's where backing down front anti-roll bar stiffness to a 22/26 will help.

My 22/26/Eibach setup is still quite stiff by road-car standards - I get plenty of interesting looks and comments turning into driveways as it picks up the inside rear wheel off the ground...

Backing down to 19/26 might help a non-Quaifed car keep the inside front wheel on the ground, but if you're, say, coming down out of the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca accelerating as hard as you can through turn 9 and you come up on some slower traffic a little quicker than you expected, even breathing off the throttle will have the tail coming around NOW. Especially in the wet.

Trying to go fast with no front sway bar (at least unless you go to 500lb/in front springs) is dog-running-on-hardwood-floor time, you're not quite sure which end is going to get there first.

 

[AREA 91]

I love that movie, one of my favorite movies of all time

FYI : Days of Thunder

Wasn't that playing in my garage when you we're there???
The best part is the smashing of the rental Taurus and Lumina!

 

[1993MTXSHO]

FYI : Days of Thunder

Wasn't that playing in my garage when you we're there???
The best part is the smashing of the rental Taurus and Lumina!

hmmm, now that you mention it, it mighta been **** yeah, brian next time I come, lets you, I and matt squared go rent some taurii and get the extra insurance

 

[Eric VerValin]

I'm auto and I want to run 24/26 combo on my sho. I've been reading this book my friend gave me to read.

It's on steering,suspension,and alignment book. I'm working on my own alignment for my sho for those hard runs. aka devil's hollow

I love that road... I've left a few cars ...."in the dust" on that one.. lol

 

[bubba]

I love that road... I've left a few cars ...."in the dust" on that one.. lol

Lol man then what are we waiting for? I love winding roads.

 

[AREA 91]

I "upgraded a 95 ATX with the 24/26 combo. It made a nice addition to the car. Especially in a pig heavy ATX.
P.S. There are LOTS of sable/tauri in the junk yards. Sway bars are cheap.