what's all this sway bar brou-ha-ha?

[LL - NY]

Tire pressures are a fine tuning technique, along with shock damping
rates. Until
the tires are doing what they are supposed to (that is, remain as
perpendicular to the pavement as possible), fine tuning does little to
effect the overall balance. Until I determined what I could legally do
with swaybars on my competition car, I was limited to tire pressures,
shock and alignment settings, of which alignment gave
the biggest, no parts gain for the buck. The antisway bar helped
easily as much to
getting my GTi from being an resolute understeering pig to being a
marginally resolute understeering pig whose tail could be made to
occasionally dance on command in certain circumstances. Fortunately,
since Solo2 is more about transitions rather than steady state
cornering, moderate understeer is less of an issue than road race
cars. So the fact that the GTi still understeered wasn't a kiss
of death in being successful in class.

LL - NY


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:50:24 EST, Jpinkowish at aol.com <Jpinkowish at aol.com> wrote:
> So why ain't nobody talkin' about their esssperience controlling
> over/understeer by using changes in front/rear tire inflation?
> 
> With a g-meter, your speed-o-meter, and a constant radius turn, this should
> be an incremental, predictable process for characterizing your cars steering.
> 
> Quicker, easier, and cheaper than going under the car to mod the sway bar.
> 
> ....and sway bar is two words.
> 
> Jan Pinkowish
> '85 4ksq
> Bristol, CT
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