Rear Sway Bar

[Patrick Austin]

At 11:20 PM 1/16/01 -0500, Lawrence C Leung wrote:
>More thoughts to the fray. Some VW trackies disconnect the front bar
>altogether. The most common rear bar on a Golf is 28 mm. BTW, consider
>stress bars first for two reasons:

The people who are successful running no front bar on VW's are usually
running 800lb springs up front to minimize camber changes.  On a street
car, you really can't do that, and the front bar is VERY important.  Yeah,
Shine Racing makes great race cars with no front bar, but speaking from
personal experience, adding the big front bar makes a TREMENDOUS difference
on a street car, even with sport springs.  I used to run Shine's rear bar
with their sport springs and the car handled well, but after putting on a
big aftermarket VW front bar, it was night-and-day better.

>In stock class racing, I am only allowed to change the front bar. I went
>to a 20 mm (it was cheap, like $10 from the boneyard, Corrado G60, and
>urethane bushings. The ONLY reason it helped reduce understeer (adding
>front sway bar NORMALLY increases understeer) is because it keeps the
>roll down enough that the tire maintains SOME camber instead of healing
>over itself. This may even work with the 80, but I don't know how badly
>they roll. 


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						Patrick Austin
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