Originally Posted by
LongFellow
Sway bars are normally solid bars not hollow tubing. I think only tanabe makes a hollow sway bar. My current endlinks are solid spherical rod ends too. All a sway bar does is transfer load from one control arm to another. The less the bar is able to twist the more anti-roll you have. Spring rate is entirely different thing.
And thats why different set ups require different techniques. Most auto-x guys run the biggest bar they can find and the remove the rear.
You dont match the bars to you're spring rate that is just flat out wrong, if you did anyone who changes out springs would have to match their sway bars to it. Shock spring rate and anti-roll are two different things though you can calculate the over all spring rate of the suspension which involves both plus the tires.
No no and no. You're seriously oversimplifying things. You don't just throw the biggest sway bar you can find on there and hope for the best! Spring rate and sway bar rate should be looked at together. There are lots of variables, not just how thick the bar is or if it's solid or hollow.
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If you're just going for ridiculously over-stiff suspension, why don't you just replace your shocks with solid metal rods? That should be stiff, right?