Spring rate help?

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Moving this over here to this thread instead of my journal:

I don't really know? I mean, the car certainly didn't get any worse for it. Both weekends on both swaybars I had fun and the car drove well. It was just seeing all the traction left on the table from the photos of the tires in the corner that bugs me. If I can flatten out those tires a bit more I can pick up more traction.

Ultimately I think I still need springrate to control the car's roll to really address this, but I think stepping down the rear bar was probably helpful and will continue to be helpful with the stiffer springs in play. The flipside is that for the moment reducing the rear bar perhaps reduced some of its unwanted effects on the rear suspension, but at the cost of allowing a little more total roll by reducing total rear springrate.

In any case, these are the best equivalent pics for comparison I could find from the photographer who was out there this weekend while I had the stock rear sway on. In most of these pics the situation looks improved, although in one of them it looks about the same as before:













I've got new springs sitting in the garage now ready for install, 900 front and 700 rear, so we'll see next event how that shakes up the situation.

Oh and youtube link to my upload from the weekend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6BJpqH1js8

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