I was wondering if anyone has tried this yet. Or what your thoughts would be about trying it. If you have DA shocks on the front, turning up the bump and disconnecting the front sway bar. You would have DAs on the rear as well.
Seems like it might help with wheespin, good in sweepers, and not lose too much in transitions. I don't want to buy a set of DAs for the front just for what everyone knows, but me, isn't worth the effort.

Thanks.

 

My gut says that for anything you'd gain in containing wheelspin, you'd loose in sweepers. A no-camber car like the mini already struggles enough to get through sweepers, but then add more body roll to the picture, and I think things would get ugly

 

You can try it but you would need a lot of compression damping to get it to work correctly. You can get it to go pretty well too but it will still be like you ran a front bar anyway because you are still artificially trying to increase the front wheel rate for those transitional moments. A simpler setup is to run the front bar and either off the shelf Koni SA shocks or the factory shocks. You can try going with a smaller front bar with adjustable end links to vary the torsional strength. I would go with a 22mm solid bar with an extended bar end and heim joint links. Some guys are running the 19 mm bar.

Jim

 

If you can get your slow speed compression up to high enough level in the front, this is worth trying. You could run the littlest front bar too in this situation.
We were going to do the exact thing you describe in the CeliGT before that car became uncompetitive and got sold. One thing the Celi has that the Mini's doesn't is camber..all you want. Mini's don't lean as much though.

In theory, the damping of the front shocks should act as a big front bar during the transitions. I would turn the rebound way down too.
Rear D/A's with compression maxed will also keep inside front tire on the ground better during transitions. Make the rebound soft too to enable suspension to come back up and stay up.
Too tail happy? Dial in a little bit of rear toe in.

Of course, all this goes against the big front bar for transition speed school of thought....

FM