My rocc plows now!

[Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com (Larry)]

Alan-
  I can't believe the design of the front (stock) swaybar allows the bar to
brace the suspension enough to prevent it from moving around, but, having no
personal experience in this, I shall defer to you....
you do have some support from other listers, after all.
:)
Larry

> I say put a front sway bar on it, or stiffer front springs.  I ran into
this
> a few years ago when I took the front bar completely off of my race car to
> see what would happen.  You would think that a very tail happy car would
get
> even more tail happy but it pushed like a pig.  The front suspension moved
> so much underload that the tire contact patch couldn't keep proper
alignment
> to the road.  It was horrible.  Note that a lot of the IT racers don't use
> fron bars, but they do use horrendously high front spring rates in most
> cases.  I think some thin like 500 to 600 in front.
>
> I would bet that this is what you are running in to.
>
> Alan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com>
> To: "Dan Williams" <scirocco21@hotmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:08 PM
> Subject: Re: My rocc plows now!
>
>
> Interesting, considering that adding a rear bar should make the car
'loose'
> (oversteer), instead of 'tight' (understeer/plow).  Besides the springs
and
> strut brace, what else did you change?  We assume it didn't plow under
> identical conditions of road, throttle, dryness, speed, etc. before these
> modifications?
>
> Larry
>
> >
> > Hey everybody,
> >
> > Heres the situation, My 86 8v has Intrax lowering springs, An upper
strut
> > tie bar and now a 28mm sway bar in the back.  I knew that it would screw
> up
> > my handling a little bit if I put on the sway bar, but I'm not sure what
> to
> > do now to fix it.  What happens exactly is if I try to power it through
a
> > corner the front end floats and drifts to the outside.  Its fine if I
just
> > drift through a corner without using too much gas, but thats no fun!
How
> > the hell do I fix this?  A beefier front swaybar?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dan
> >
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