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Originally Posted by solidONE
My question is in regards to roll bars. I know they are there to decrease body roll, but how do roll bars effect the damping of a particular shock? Let's say you have a shock/spring combo that is close to being critically damped. Now let's say you increase the rate on the roll bar. How would this effect the way the shock is damped in relation to the spring(s) since it increases the total roll stiffness in conjunction with the spring? Alternately, would a much smaller anti-roll bar in this set up require less damping?
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Depending on how stiff the anti-roll bar/sway bar is, yes, but this is pretty rare. Effectively, you are adding spring to the car, so you may need to re-adjust dampers to be back at critical.
For most situations, damping will not need to be changed.
If you have a highly adjustable blade setup in a race car... well... you're probably not going to be able to change damping in realtime like you can with the sways anyways
