How wide tires affect overall performance

DEpointfive0 · 09-25-2013, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by FortuneLSX-TT

I'm new to sway bar settings myself. So could you explain how stiffening the rear sway bar will help with too much grip in the rear already? I was under the impression that stiffer = kept the tires planted more = more grip.

Secondly, wouldn't he want to work on increasing the front grip instead of reducing the rear grip? Which would negate any benefit the 305's would of given him and simply reduce overall traction?

You get different data/input from different sources.

The GENERAL rule is:
Increase front bar stiffness, increase understeer.
Increase rear bar stiffness, increase oversteer.
I think the thinking is weight transfer/balance in turns?

The track guys, IIRC, say that you need more front bar for better traction/oversteer though.

All I know is that it's a balancing act and too much/too little of either bar plays different roles depending on what kind of driving you're going to be doing.

My input, for me, 99.9% of my driving is very aggressive street driving, so I got the Nismo S-Tune bars, because I assume they know what they're doing a bit, and they are making a stiffness setting for the masses, which I fall into.

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