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Originally Posted by michael lang
Bob, in reading your original post, it can be construed as a couple of things. 1. You just installed new sway bars and your trying to figure out the best initial setting or 2. You are trying to correct a problem that you are having with the car.
For the answer to #1, I don't believe there is a correct answer. I think it really depends on what you like/want out of your car. My car is set up fairly stiff and to be honest is really uncomfortable to drive on the street. I absolutely hate driving into Bethesda because the roads around Washington DC are in such bad shape, get it out to a track and it transform into a whole different beast. But those are the trade offs that I decided to make.
For #2, if you are trying to fix something and you installed the sway bars to address a problem, well you never said what the problem was. You started into oversteer but you never committed to that as being the actual issue. Are you getting lift in one of the tires like it was suggested? Or is there something else that is going on? I used to have the r/f tire come real high as I would come around T6 at SPR and I always felt as though it was slowing me up. A few years ago when I went through my suspension refresh, I put in Bilstein sports just you have but went a lot stiffer in the torsions bars. As soon as I stiffened up the rear, the tire lift I was having coming around T6 went away. The benefit was that I was then breaking 1:30's SPR. I don't think moving the adjustment on the rear sway bar to 1/2 or 1/4 stiff is going to make that much of a difference in oversteer, so give it a try and see what you think.
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Looks like I started some conversation here.
It's # 1 Mike. I'm good. I'll just bring a small tool box with me. It's tough you find the right setting on back roads. End of May, Summit point. First time out in years. Maybe I'll see you there.
_Bob