Sway bar spring rates
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a lot of cars run sway bars behind the front wheels stock.
Sway bar helps alot with transitions . I wouldnt remove it in the front . I removed it in the rear on my miata . and the car was easier to control . but it sucked on slaloms because of transitions
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Honestly, the rotary engine is so light and so low and so far back that I don't think moving the location of the bars would make any real difference in polar moment if inertia... maybe if it was a front wheel drive car that needs every ounce of weight moved back. Generally speaking, the less you change from stock the better... improving what's already there is usually the he's solution.
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Just to update this as to not have false information out there... I measured last night and it was 18mm, not 16mm. I had mis-remembered.
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Does the FC not?
Honestly, the rotary engine is so light and so low and so far back that I don't think moving the location of the bars would make any real difference in polar moment if inertia... maybe if it was a front wheel drive car that needs every ounce of weight moved back. Generally speaking, the less you change from stock the better... improving what's already there is usually the he's solution.
Honestly, the rotary engine is so light and so low and so far back that I don't think moving the location of the bars would make any real difference in polar moment if inertia... maybe if it was a front wheel drive car that needs every ounce of weight moved back. Generally speaking, the less you change from stock the better... improving what's already there is usually the he's solution.
The point is not to have less polar moment (though it would help) it's to decrease the leverage on the frame rails by placing the bar closer to the center of them.
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Ok, it's been a few years since I've fiddled with my FC.
Aren't the mounting points on the submember?
You could just seamweld and reinforce the submember, could you not?
Seamwelding the frame rails would also be an option if you want more rigidity.
Aren't the mounting points on the submember?
You could just seamweld and reinforce the submember, could you not?
Seamwelding the frame rails would also be an option if you want more rigidity.
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Get a framing square and measure the distance between the pivot points (the center of the bar and the sway bar links). Calculate the spring rate with this and the thickness of the bar.
Then measure from the two lower suspension pickups to middle of the sway bar link. Then measure from the pickups to the lower ball joint.
Then measure from the two lower suspension pickups to middle of the sway bar link. Then measure from the pickups to the lower ball joint.
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