Rear Stabilizer Bar

[Eric Fletcher S.O.C.]

> Actually, understeer is corrected at the rear axle, especially if it's a
> front-driver.  I race an ITC Scirocco, and am running one big bar in the
> rear, and NO bar in the front.  The car used to push like mad, until, at the
> advice of about the entire field, I removed the front sway bar.  Some
> fwd'ers are using TWO rear bars.  Also, no top strut tie bar is used,
> although that's due to rules constraints.

You might want to run a roll center analysis on the Type 44 or you can read
the one that I wrote that is in the archives.

The problem boils down to this.  The rear suspension is TOO good on the Type
44's.  There is SO much weight transfer going on in the car that the rear
inside wheel is already unloaded to the point that its only carrying about
50lbs in a full load turn.


Eric Fletcher
'00 S4tt
'87 5KCSTQ with way too many mods (Gone but not Forgotten)