Front/rear sway bar questions

JARblue · 11-17-2020, 09:11 AM

A stiff front sway bar will reduce understeer and help you turn in better. A stiff rear bar will induce more oversteer, so track people tend to prefer softer sway bar in the rear. That's why you see a lot of people put on a Hotchkis front bar because it is the stiffest one on the market and then go with either the soft OEM rear bar or no rear bar to reduce oversteer.

cv129 · 11-17-2020, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JARblue

A stiff front sway bar will reduce understeer and help you turn in better.

Just a caution for the green horns (myself included)....This is true in case of Z34 (although I’m unsure it’s actually used to further assist the rear or directly affect the front, don’t know the math), but in general the opposite is true.

11-17-2020, 09:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
JARblue A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Austin, TX Age: 44 Posts: 36,450 Drives: 11 Z34, 98 E36 M3 Rep Power: 2684441	A stiff front sway bar will reduce understeer and help you turn in better. A stiff rear bar will induce more oversteer, so track people tend to prefer softer sway bar in the rear. That's why you see a lot of people put on a Hotchkis front bar because it is the stiffest one on the market and then go with either the soft OEM rear bar or no rear bar to reduce oversteer. Rusty, Hotrodz, johnxxx and 4 others like this. __________________ 2011 370Z 6MT Sport Gun Metallic \| ARC \| CJM \| Ecutek \| FI \| Fujimura \| R2C \| SPL \| Stillen \| TWM \| Z1 \| ZSpeed \|

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