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Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo
@ Racecomp Engineering or @ CSG Mike, I have a hypothetical suspension question.
Imagine you have a set of shocks and springs well matched for each other, like RCE Yellows with the stock shocks they were designed to work with. if you added significantly stiffer sway bars to that setup, would you need to go back and get stiffer shocks to keep the car from being underdamped in roll?
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Short answer...yes, the swaybar stiffness should be taken into account with your dampers.
Longer answer...if you only have 4 dampers like most of us, this means you're making a compromise. The "ideal" 65% critically damped number that's thrown around is usually only in reference to your main springs and dampers. So that's fine for ride but for roll you also have the swaybars working. It's possible to have more than 4 dampers so you can isolate all the different body motions but that's not really a thing for normal cars.
In practice...if you have adjustable shocks this is one area they can help. But shocks that are poorly matched to the main springs is MUCH more noticeable than when they don't really match the main springs + roll bars. In some cases, the benefit of the extra roll resistance may outweigh the drawbacks but it depends on other factors. So you may not need to worry about it too much in practice.
- Andrew