My rocc plows now!

[amalventano1@comcast.net (Allyn)]

yeah, thats probably whats happening. you end up with more body roll in front. roll to the point
that both front tires take an angle to the road and you wnd up with a tiny contact patch.
Al

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: My rocc plows now!


> Alan-
>   I can't believe the design of the front (stock) swaybar allows the bar to
> brace the suspension enough to prevent it from moving around, but, having no
> personal experience in this, I shall defer to you....
> you do have some support from other listers, after all.
> :)
> Larry
>
> > I say put a front sway bar on it, or stiffer front springs.  I ran into
> this
> > a few years ago when I took the front bar completely off of my race car to
> > see what would happen.  You would think that a very tail happy car would
> get
> > even more tail happy but it pushed like a pig.  The front suspension moved
> > so much underload that the tire contact patch couldn't keep proper
> alignment
> > to the road.  It was horrible.  Note that a lot of the IT racers don't use
> > fron bars, but they do use horrendously high front spring rates in most
> > cases.  I think some thin like 500 to 600 in front.
> >
> > I would bet that this is what you are running in to.
> >
> > Alan
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com>
> > To: "Dan Williams" <scirocco21@hotmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: My rocc plows now!
> >
> >
> > Interesting, considering that adding a rear bar should make the car
> 'loose'
> > (oversteer), instead of 'tight' (understeer/plow).  Besides the springs
> and
> > strut brace, what else did you change?  We assume it didn't plow under
> > identical conditions of road, throttle, dryness, speed, etc. before these
> > modifications?
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > >
> > > Hey everybody,
> > >
> > > Heres the situation, My 86 8v has Intrax lowering springs, An upper
> strut
> > > tie bar and now a 28mm sway bar in the back.  I knew that it would screw
> > up
> > > my handling a little bit if I put on the sway bar, but I'm not sure what
> > to
> > > do now to fix it.  What happens exactly is if I try to power it through
> a
> > > corner the front end floats and drifts to the outside.  Its fine if I
> just
> > > drift through a corner without using too much gas, but thats no fun!
> How
> > > the hell do I fix this?  A beefier front swaybar?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Dan
> > >
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