View Poll Results: Will a STB Improve the Handling of Cars?
Yes
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I'm on the Fence on this one
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10-01-2004, 11:24 AM
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My 2 cents:
I just sold a Racing Dynamics Sway bar for $100 cdn. Why did I sell it? The simple answer is when I was at Mosport or even a tight track (Small regional tracks like Shannonville and Cayuga), I would drive a session with the bar on, and a session with the bar off. I didn't notice a difference. The one thing I did notice is that the adjustment joint on the bar moved back and forth while I was on the track. My conclusion was that the Racing Dynamics bar does NOT help me. It has a joint you tighten with a nut and bolt right at the flex point....dumb.
The car was a 951 with Koni Sports, 300# fronts and rubber upper bushings, solid camber blocks and Delrin A-arm bushings. Stock sway bars. Well balanced, virtually no understeer.
Personally, once I replace the rubber with some spherical bushings, I am going to make a similar bar to the CupCar bars with some type of triangulation added to it as well. It will be a while before I do this, but I am going to do the same tests. A few laps with bar on a few with bar off.... of course, I am at the point where I either leave this car the way it is or go whole hog and start replacing the rear rubber as well.
cheers,
Patrick
I just sold a Racing Dynamics Sway bar for $100 cdn. Why did I sell it? The simple answer is when I was at Mosport or even a tight track (Small regional tracks like Shannonville and Cayuga), I would drive a session with the bar on, and a session with the bar off. I didn't notice a difference. The one thing I did notice is that the adjustment joint on the bar moved back and forth while I was on the track. My conclusion was that the Racing Dynamics bar does NOT help me. It has a joint you tighten with a nut and bolt right at the flex point....dumb.
The car was a 951 with Koni Sports, 300# fronts and rubber upper bushings, solid camber blocks and Delrin A-arm bushings. Stock sway bars. Well balanced, virtually no understeer.
Personally, once I replace the rubber with some spherical bushings, I am going to make a similar bar to the CupCar bars with some type of triangulation added to it as well. It will be a while before I do this, but I am going to do the same tests. A few laps with bar on a few with bar off.... of course, I am at the point where I either leave this car the way it is or go whole hog and start replacing the rear rubber as well.
cheers,
Patrick
10-01-2004, 05:27 PM
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Patrick- I can seee that- I like the way those bars look, but, RD's little center adj point seemed kind of odd to me, from a structural point.... I'm not an engineer, but, it sounds like it DOES effect it....
10-04-2004, 07:31 AM
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It should vastly improve performance in ANY car! The lack of twist at front from high G-forces,. confidently keep the four wheels planted. It is not very noticeable in the P-Car, only because its near-perfect suspension geometry is mostly factory dialed-in. The SBR guarantees your four wheels will wear prematurely too. Torsional rigidity is only warranted on cars doing alot of threshold-braking into sweeping corners.
