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And even if one is tracking car, if one does on car with not overly wide & grippy tires & hasn't lot of extra aero installed, i also wouldn't bother with thicker swaybars. Even more so i wouldn't change just one (to not shift grip balance too much).
Thicker swaybars reduce roll .. but also make suspension less independent/decrease grip, as one overloads outer tire quicker.
I guess they are undeservedly popular aftermarket mod only for reasons of relatively cheap price & simple install for one thing, and other being that one may gain more confidence to push in corners more if one goes by feel of gut how much can be pushed from amount of roll .. even though grip is there even with less stiff antirollbars (actually even more of grip), just one might not have confidence to fully use it.
I get it if one has went far with track-moding and added lot of aero and drives on very grippy tires and wishes to reduce roll for increasing springrate just during cornering, reduce aero change and dynamic camber change from excessive roll on such car that sees due tires/aero much higher side-Gs. I get it, when one goes for different swaybars for sake of intentional grip balance change.
What i don't get, why one would wish to install stiffer swaybars on only street driven car, where one would see mostly drawbacks of that like eg. less compliant/comfortable ride, and where one corners not on limit and drives not on track slicks to see much side-Gs in roundabouts (unless one drives in soon to loose license manner that may endanger oneself and others on roads) to see any real gains from installing them.
Such mod might feel worthy on very wallowy with overly soft stock suspension car with very high CG like some SUV that sways like boat in turns. On twins for DD? Mostly cons, not pros.
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