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Originally Posted by KoolBRZ
This isn't like I removed the steering wheel, you know. The car has such a low center of gravity a sway bar isn't really necessary for street use. If you want to worry about me, worry because I have an OFT with the new "pedal dance mode". Now that's dangerous.
There is a hollow front sway bar available for these cars. I may just remove the rear sway bar and install the hollow front bar and call it good. It's obvious that the stock sway bars are too stiff for daily driving, but what I'm trying to find out is, if it's better with just the front bar, just the rear bar, or without both bars. After all, if Formula One cars can run without sway bars, why can't my BRZ?
I'll take some videos for all the doubting Thomas's out there. If I can still corner without sway bars, then who needs them?
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What exactly are you trying to accomplish by removing the bars, and do you even understand what they do and how they work?
If you find the car too firm over bumps that both wheels hit, removing the sway bars isn't going to change a single thing. They don't add to the spring rate if both wheels at the same end are moving together.
The whole point of sway bars is to reduce body roll without needing really stiff springs/dampers. It doesn't increase bump stiffness.
The ONLY improvement in ride quality to be had from removing sway bars is if you're feeling cross talk over bumps. Meaning, if you hit a bump with the right front wheel, you can feel the left front responding as well. I highly doubt you're getting that with the stock bars though, they aren't that stiff.
What kinds of bumps are you trying to improve ride quality over? Big bumps, small sharp ones? Undulating pavement (ripples, rolls, etc)?
You'll get MUCH further by properly identifying what you want to fix, then looking at things that will actually affect that instead of just trying the shotgun approach.