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Re: TR4's and Tarmac Autotesting

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Subject: Re: TR4's and Tarmac Autotesting
From: Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:16:37 -0600
If your limited slip will truly lock the rear, adding a rear sway bar will 
help the rotation quite a bit.  My car (formerly R. John Lye's) was an 
autocross car when I bought it and had a substantial front and rear sway 
bar.  At lower speeds it would rotate very nicely.  At high speed (80+), it 
had too much oversteer so I removed the rear bar.  It was quite 
entertaining, but slower at high speed with the rear bar.  But, for a 
slalom type of deal it would work much better.  I believe that my rear 
springs are stiffer than stock too.  The rear bar won't work well with a 
quaiffe limited slip, but should work with a salisbury or detroit locker 
(what I've got).

What's not intuitively obvious with the solid axle TR's is that a stiffer 
front bar actually helps the car rotate.  I can't explain why, but 
experience has shown this to be true.  So, a stiffer front sway bar may be 
all that you need.

- Tony Drews


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