10-21-2011, 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Jordo!
Remove flex from front = bias towards understeer
Remove flex from the rear = bias towards oversteer
Playing with both you can get a car fairly neutral, or biased as you prefer. Of course, springs, shocks, and sway bars all interact with chassis bracing too and tweak handling one way or the other.
Most road cars come from the factory biased towards understeer (plow forward in a stright line when trying to turn), which is presumed to be "safer" in an emergency than oversteer (spin out, nose first).
Assuming that bar is pretty stiff, it's presumably there to keep the FT-86 on the track rather than in the fence. Be interesting to see what kind of bracing is in the rear and how stiff the F and R stock sway bars are.
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Hopefully stiff enough that I don't have to worry about switching them out for aftermarket parts in a hurry.
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