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Suspension Is the front sway bar a good idea?

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Old Jan 3, 2008 | 05:13 PM
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Is the front sway bar a good idea?

I WAS going to put a 27mm front sway bar on my MCS but a bunch of people have been telling me that it is a bad idea to do. Any ideas?
 
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Old Jan 3, 2008 | 05:26 PM
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27mm front with a 19mm rear? sounds like a recipe for understeer
 
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Old Jan 3, 2008 | 07:36 PM
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You can do it. But, have enough money and time available to upgrade something else if you don't like the result (could be a bit of understeer).

Only one way to find out...

dan
 
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Old Jan 3, 2008 | 08:19 PM
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A 27mm front bar would be a disaster no matter what rear bar you have. Understeer heaven!

I have an H-Sport front anti-roll bar [26mm equivalent] on my MCS on full soft along with an H-Sport Comp rear anti-roll bar [22mm equivalent] on full stiff and even with tuned coilovers the car will eventually understeer on slow corners. I like my car to be very stable in high speed sweepers [or be neutral with R-compounds] so that's how my car is setup; it'd pretty much get pwned at an autocross.

Short story shorter; stay with the stock front bar and get a 3-way adjustable 21mm rear ARB; that'll let you dial in the handling perfectly.
 
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