[V8] Rear Sway Bars

[Ron Wainwright]

Oh there are massive changes Ken ;-)
 I'm doing the entire suspension front & rear. You
haven't seen what I'm doing yet??

 Ron

--- "Stafford, Kenneth A." <stafford at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> Ron,
> 
> Definitely a cool thing, but I think adding a sway
> bar with no other changes will actually loosen up
> your axle!  IME, stiffening the rear roll is
> generally done to reduce understeer (something our
> front end heavy V8s need IMO.  A RSB will
> redistribute the normal loads (hence cornering
> loads) to the outside wheel in turning while taking
> weight off the inside.  This will cause the car to
> actually oversteer as it loads up the outside wheel
> more.   Good luck!
> 
> Ken
> 91 V8Q
> 
> 
>  & saying you have a RSB on a car that didn't come
> with one just sounds k00l...that's
> why I'm doing it ;-)
>  But seriously I'm adding one to tighten up the rear
> end. With the 5spd V8 at least the rear end has a
> tendancy to step out a bit. I just want to control
> it
> a bit.
> 
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