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Originally Posted by canadaRS1.0
wouldnt stiffer sway bars help prevent the torsen diff becoming "open"? by preventing body roll, you would keep the weight more evenly distributed between the tires and help prevent one from lifting, no?
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To a point, then when your suspension becomes too stiff you are more likely to lift a wheel as posted above, kind of like lifting the corner of a sheet of paper vs. lifting the corner of a sheet of cardboard.
Think of it as an inverse, when you lift a corner of a sheet of paper it's like pushing down on the suspension, paper soft, the other 3 wheels stay where they should, cardboard stiff, the other wheels begin to 'lift' as well, in reality the corner you lifted is being super compressed the car is hunching down on that corner and the opposite corner (still on the table) is actually 'lifting' up in the air. In autoX the outside front tire takes a ton of load as you hunker down on it to turn, the inside rear wheel lifts.
But you have available to you what you have available to you, I say try going back to OE front bar, they're not that difficult to swap. iirc most are running stiffer rear bar in CS w/ OE front.
FWD cars usually end up running soft fronts and stiff rears, this is the result:
AND as another example, in oval racing the cars get setup the opposite way with relatively soft rears the car hunkers down on the right rear and the left front lifts. You can also see it in certain road course series too.
