I'd put the money into a coilover kit and play around with spring rates to
get the roll stiffness you desire. That inside rear wheel does nothing for
you in the air. We use this thought process on our FSP Scirocco to great
success. NO rear bar, 600# rear springs, 400# fronts with a 25mm hollow
front sway bar (and Quaife).
Ian Pitts
'95 Passat GLS
'90 Jetta Coupe
'81 Scirocco FSP (http://www.detn8.org/Rocco/)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Pariza [mailto:bpariza@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 5:18 PM
To: autox@autox.team.net
Subject: A/R bar question...
I knew there was a reason that I liked you Eric.
My real question, for anyone who would like to reply, is: Is there such a
thing as too much roll-stiffness, and if so just what does it get you? I'm
looking at bigger a-r bars, but there are lots of choices. Fortunately for
me, they all seem to come in f/r sets, so I'm anticipating that the fore/aft
balance was done by someone with a clue (as opposed to me). I've found some
aftermarket 'bars that claim to be 40% stiffer than the factory "road race"
bars and am wondering if perhaps that's a bit much, hence the question.
Will "too much" roll stiffness get me more weight transfer to the outside
tires resulting in an earlier slide as the overworked outside tires give up?
Or, will planting them harder (hopefully smooth transfer so that we don't
rush past the limit, as described above) make them stick better? Or (final
option) does everything depend (meaning that the only way to find out is to
buy them and try them)?
I dunno about that. ;^) .22's are an awful lot of fun. Care to challenge me
to animal crackers at 75 yards? Then Neco wafers, and finally aspirin
tablets? Truth be told I missed the aspirins more often than I hit them but
the animal crackers sure are fun to watch explode.
Now, with a good .308 a bipedal varmint can be in trouble as far away as
1100 yards, depending upon the wind. =8^O
I'm just glad with the recent rash of "fast & furious" drivers out there
that the media has someone to burn at the stake and/or dunk besides a bunch
of us lawful gun owners.
Eric Linnhoff in KC
#69 STS
'98 Dodge Neon (see-dan)
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