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Originally Posted by jvincent
Taking this thread to the next level.......
If no sway-bar is good, how about no springs up front. Hell why not take out the whole strut?
Think of how planted the car would feel.
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Since the purpose of the sway bar isn't to support the weight of the vehicle, this comparison, frankly, is stupid.
I used sway bars to help fine-tune my previous race car. It was hampered by many things, but playing with sway bars helped me learn a lot. Some of these things have to be experimented with to know for sure how the chassis will react. The last season I ran my B14 it had no front or rear sway bar and it had much more balance. Springs were so stiff, there was no body roll anyway. Having the sway bars on there made the car feel more inconsistent in cornering behavior. Too much front bar would understeer, too much rear would oversteer. In my particular scenario, actually racing on a track provided the best insight to how the car would handle. I strongly preferred the setup without the sway bar, as the tires wouldn't load up as much in cornering, and I even saved weight doing it.
Not condoning it, but I highly doubt any harm is going to come from trying it out. So coming in with a comparison like above is childish, and makes you look dumb, because these scenarios aren't even close to the same thing.
If I were running stiff enough springs on the BRZ I would toy with removing the sway bars.