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Originally Posted by Sammakko
i'd leave the front swaybar in place, and try deleting the rear (you don't have to remove it to do your testing, just disconnect one of the link arms). MR2Spyder guys go FASTER without a rear swaybar. allowing the back of the car to "roll" while keeping pressure on the outside front tire, can help with oversteer, which the ft86 is extremely prone to, especially with helical diff..
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I would be extremely shocked if lap times improved by just removing the stock rear bar. I also wouldn't call it extremely prone to oversteer.
Even on the stock tires, the FRS (loosest rear of all FT86 models) is still understeer biased in steady state cornering. They're easy to get sliding on the stock tires, but that's power oversteer and not too much rear bias.
With sticky tires, that bias is more obvious. Can you make it oversteer, sure, but it's also very easy to make it understeer. I've got A LOT of track kms on mine, and I don't find it overly tail happy at all, even with an alignment designed to give it more rotation.
Beyond that, they're VERY east to catch if the tail does step out.
Drive an AP1 S2000 and an FRS back to back and you'll understand
