Front/rear sway bar questions

Originally Posted by Ralphatron

yeah, I think what I'm going to do first is move the end link to the outer hole (softest setting) on the rear sway. You're saying just unlink one side and basically leave the endlink hanging there to test this out? any potential issues I can run into while driving it this way for a bit?



Yeah, the adventure I've been on the past few months trying to get this right has taught me about all the factors that come into play with suspension.

the second coilover kit I put on had custom swift springs at 12k in the front and 7k in the rear (true rear, not divorced spring). This was BRUTAL to drive and I immediately threw on 10k/5k swifts and noticed a huge difference. But I assumed the custom valved dampers for the 12k/7k original springs on this kit were causing it to still be too stiff for daily street driving.

That's why I went with a completely new divorced spring kit, using default spring rates of 10k front and 8k rear. As I'm sure you know, the spring rate is basically double for divorced spring vs true rear coilover spring due to the wheel rate.

This was also noticeably better, but I'm still feeling what I think you described as "darting" (car slightly being thrown left or right I think?) when hitting bumps with one side of the car only.

The other thing too is that I have yet to get my alignment done, because I wanted to finalize my configuration before spending the 100 bucks and avoid having to do it again if I wanted to change something. I know this will affect handling, but I didn't think it would be enough to cause my issue, right?

As for ride height, I'm not slammed, and I'm not at stock height. I'd say right now I'm noticing this at maybe 1.5 inches lower than stock, so nothing extreme but was planning to fine tune the height adjustment to maybe a half inch lower than it is now, just waiting for springs to settle a bit first.

I'm not really sure what down travel is. I'm on the default dampers that come with the BR series coilovers from BC and I have them set to the softest of the 30 available settings.

I appreciate the responses, guys, thank you!