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From what i understand, you can put a preload on the adjustable drop links, but what they're main use is to keep the sway bar arms horizonal at rest...

REASON: If you raise or lower your car and have a sway bar with non adjustable links, it will rise and fall according to the lower A arms. When at rest, if the sway bar arms are above or below horizonal, then you wont get the equal pull/push than if the arms were at horizonal. The arms work along a radius, and the center of the radius is the sway bar. At rest, as said before, you want the arms to be horizonal, so when you enter a corner, lets make it a right hand corner, as the left front pushes up, the right front pulls down by the torsion bar.

I've been told this by several suscessful racers. Good luck on what ever you decide to go with. Don,
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