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Originally Posted by dwx
That bar is about 2X the stiffness of the Strano bar even on its lowest setting, it will be interesting to see how the bigger bars play out. I'm mainly going off Sam's feedback and where he felt the bar should be, and I definitely respect his opinion.
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Does anyone know (for a fact) what the OE FSB rate is, and where I can find it?... I didn't look for very long, but I just gave up.
I've looked into it, and it depends who you believe... If you back calculate from the Hotchkis bar % of OE, you arrive at an OE FSB rate of 185 lbs/in... Eibach (via phastek) has the OE FSB rate listed on their site at 141 lbs/in... Hotchkis says their softer rate is 500 lbs/in, eibach is 376 lbs/in, those values are listed in their product literature. Sam has provided info that his bar is 185% OF OE FSB rate, so if you go on the Hotchkis assumption, the Strano bar is about 342 lbs/in, but if you go on the Eibach/Phastek assumption, it comes out to 261 lbs/in. I don't think Sam has gone on record as to what the exact rate is, only the percentage of OE...
I HAVE to assume these are straight bar displacement rates, and do not take into account changes in end link angle, just a straight displacement of the relative eyelet position as the bar is displaced.
Yea... I got confused and said forget it
