RE: [Opinion] Front End Anti-Sway Bar Theory

[jacobss@greatoaks.com]

Yes I am a follower, but to a certain degree, I run a stock rear bar with a
25mm rear bar.  Yes I run 2 bars out back.  I run the stock front bar on the
road, why, because it does help make the car understeer a little.  For an
auto-x I remove the front bar, and just run the rear.  THIS make the car
oversteer, just what I want in an auto-x, it is controllable.  But I return
it to mild (very mild) understeer for the street.  That way if anybody else
drives it will still plow a little.

Stephen Jacobs
87 8v Scirocco

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	TBerk16@aol.com [SMTP:TBerk16@aol.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 20, 1998 12:42 AM
> To:	scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject:	Re: [Opinion] Front End Anti-Sway Bar Theory
> 
> It would seem you have yet to find out about a chap known as Randy
> Walters.
> 
> You can do what you want w/ your own car but I'm having _some_ kind of
> anti-
> sway bar on the front.
> 
> Consider that they are going for all-out racing, right?  Another thing-
> our
> A1s can benefit from extra reinforcement to keep things from flexing too
> far
> out of spec.
> 
> Dunno- Might be a Martian Plot, ya know?  :)
> 
> TBerk
> 
> In a message dated 8/18/98 6:50:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> josiah@gsinet.net
> writes:
> > 
> >  There appears to be a heated debate on this subject, and I think it's
> all 
> > about
> >  preference.  I like my 22mm front swaybar because it limits body roll.
> A 
> > front
> >  swaybar will do a lot more to limit body roll than a rear one, in
> general. 
> > It
> >  may promote understeer, but IMHO, keeping the car level and the tires
> on
> the
> >  road is more important.
> >      -Josiah
> >  
> >  Mark A Peele wrote:
> >  
> >  > I'm bored at work so heres a question: Anybody check out Shine
> Racing's
> >  > Web Page?
> >  >
> >  > http://www.srsvw.com/
> >  >
> >  > They advocate no front swaybar. They say it promotes understeer.
> >  > Interesting contrast to the normal 16mm to 22mm upgrade.
> --
> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to
> scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
> with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of the message.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of the message.

------------------------------