New rear stress bar

[rocco16v at netzero.net (L F)]

Since the rear stress bar bolts to the top of the rear shock, it does nothing to keep the chassis from flexing.  The rear towers could still move around the rubber-mounted suspension units.  
 In effect, the stress bar is rubber-mounted.....and a whole heck of a lot of good THAT does.    This is a situation duplicated with all the rear stress bars I've seen.

In addition, lateral cornering loads are all absorbed by the rear axle mounting points....none of the loads go up through the two flexible shock mountings (lower and upper) into the body. It's possible that vertical stresses in that area can cause the towers to move side-to-side slightly, put that wouldn't affect handling to any degree.  

Realistically, rear stress bars serve no mechanical function.
(looking at the designs of all the front stress bars and the way the A1's are built, I have my doubts that any of the commercially-available fronts do a heck of a lot either....)

Ergo; Scirocco suspension design doesn't result in rear shock towers moving AND the normal bar wouldn't stop the movement even if it did occur.
Save yer money.

Larry

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Toomasson 
  To: ATS - Patrick Bureau ; scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:41 AM
  Subject: Re: New rear stress bar


  he'd better come up with a better description than that if he wants to try
  to sell a supposed high performance part that no one/few have ever seen...
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: <ATS - Patrick Bureau>
  To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
  Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 6:33 AM
  Subject: New rear stress bar


  > Anyone seen these on the web, they look interesting considering the shape
  > (looks to be triangular bar) and the price.
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