Whiel there is some interest on this subject can I get you guys to look at
www.sanerperffab.com there home page has a color coded chart on how to
adjust oversteer and understeer but at the same time it's a little like a
brain tees at least for my brain >> rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: <yellowandgreen@comcast.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:45 PM
Subject: RE: sway bar
> You can do that, but it's usually easier to move the mounting point inward
> on the bar to get the effect of a heavier bar. And yes, it's the same
> reason that the little kid moves to the farthest away seat on the teeter
> totter and the fat kid moves in. Less leverage equals heavier bar.
>
>
> Bill Babcock
> Babcock & Jenkins
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of yellowandgreen@comcast.net
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 2:52 PM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: sway bar
>
> Friends
> I am an architect in need of a structural engineer....................
> or at least some thoughts on sway bars and how they work.
> I have the 3/4" adco sway bar on the front of my TR3 and have been wanting
> to try something heavier.
> Wouldn't it make some sense to move the mounting ends of the bar to a
> position further out on the lower wishbone to get the same effect as using
> a
> heavier bar?
> Kinda like a small kid sliding all the way back on a teeter toter to pick
> up
> an advantage.
>
> Thanks
> Dennis DeLap
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