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Originally Posted by j0eyabs
mine did the same but they wouldnt give me the parts. they said to call some other place and they didnt have them either.
Also what is wrong with a 28mm bar?
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Read my last post. Huge bars effectively turn your rear suspension into a really mass-inefficient twist-beam setup...You get all of the crappy characteristics of a twistbeam with probably almost twice the mass.
Sway bars should be used to fine-tune a setup, and IMO a 28.5 mm sway bar too big for that task.
I'm a fan of providing as much roll-stiffness as possible by adding spring rate to the independent suspension, rather than providing roll-stiffness through effectively disabling the independent character of the setup (which is what a really big RSB does - it ties the 2 independent sections together much more tightly than they should be and allows less independent movement, just like a twist-beam rear setup).
There is a decent sticky in the Suspension Forum with a link it in that explains pretty simply how exactly swaybars work:
http://www.houseofthud.com/cartech/swaybars.htm
The Road/Rally/Auto-X Forum also has some great links to articles about different chassis setups and how they affect driving dynamics. Check it out when you have time and if what I'm saying doesn't make sense to you now, it probably will be a little clearer after some reading.
http://forums.focaljet.com/road-rall...ud-6-05-a.html
Oh, and zetecgt makes another good point as well: Big RSBs have been known to "oil-can" the rear LCAs where the endlinks mount and cause rear LCA failure.
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