Downsides to upgraded swaybar?

chris_flies · 05-04-2018, 09:07 AM

I did an upgraded rear bar (without an LSD

) and it made the car feel lighter on it's feet getting out of corners, as in, I can get the rear to step out a bit on dry pavement with nannies still full-on...

I do have relatively severe traction issues when making steeply-banked turns uphill, I have to think ahead and turn everything off and just fight through the wheelspin mid-corner, but it's all fine once the car is level with the pavement.

ShocknAwe · 05-04-2018, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by chris_flies

I did an upgraded rear bar (without an LSD

) and it made the car feel lighter on it's feet getting out of corners, as in, I can get the rear to step out a bit on dry pavement with nannies still full-on...

I do have relatively severe traction issues when making steeply-banked turns uphill, I have to think ahead and turn everything off and just fight through the wheelspin mid-corner, but it's all fine once the car is level with the pavement.

I bet haha. Big rear bar without a lsd, you must like one tire fire.

chris_flies · 05-04-2018, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ShocknAwe

I bet haha. Big rear bar without a lsd, you must like one tire fire.

Actually, the E-Diff does a pretty decent job most of the time, but it just can't do anything on the really strangely-cambered corners, that's the only point where there's any one-wheel peel at all. Anywhere else, it's relatively smooth and non-noticeable, but won't even approach the playfulness and consistency of an eventual LSD.

ShocknAwe · 05-04-2018, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by chris_flies

Actually, the E-Diff does a pretty decent job most of the time, but it just can't do anything on the really strangely-cambered corners, that's the only point where there's any one-wheel peel at all. Anywhere else, it's relatively smooth and non-noticeable, but won't even approach the playfulness and consistency of an eventual LSD.

Ediff really isn't horrible as long as you have enough rubber to hold power to the ground.

chris_flies · 05-04-2018, 01:07 PM

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Ediff really isn't horrible as long as you have enough rubber to hold power to the ground.

Or just enough power to not totally out-do the rubber

ShocknAwe · 05-04-2018, 04:28 PM

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Or just enough power to not totally out-do the rubber

haHA! Sex jokes.

ShocknAwe · 05-04-2018, 05:20 PM

Gonna start a new thread about spring rates and front sway bars.

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