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Finally got around to fitting my 25mm rear sway bar yesterday , took it for a quick drive and it handles so much nicer , but now i can fell how bad/old (160xxx) my shock / springs really are need to hurry up and get my coilovers gor it
Finally got around to fitting my 25mm rear sway bar yesterday , took it for a quick drive and it handles so much nicer , but now i can fell how bad/old (160xxx) my shock / springs really are need to hurry up and get my coilovers gor it
I am always amazed when people say the handling is so much better or noticibly different with a sway bar. When I installed mine I didn't notice a thing. Its now on the tightest setting and I still don't notice anything.
I am always amazed when people say the handling is so much better or noticibly different with a sway bar. When I installed mine I didn't notice a thing. Its now on the tightest setting and I still don't notice anything.
Is yours a solid or hollow 25mm bar?
Maybe you're not driving hard enough Tbh I didn't really notice mine until I went onto a track. The only time I really notice mine day to day, is when crabbing over a speed bump or 3-wheeling into a drive way
I am always amazed when people say the handling is so much better or noticibly different with a sway bar. When I installed mine I didn't notice a thing. Its now on the tightest setting and I still don't notice anything.
Is yours a solid or hollow 25mm bar?
its a sold 25mm rear sway bar , its a lot more centered and a lot less body roll when throwing it in to a corner , i seem to have better control over the car when cornering hard at high speed and the car doesn't lean/dip as much either
Maybe you're not driving hard enough Tbh I didn't really notice mine until I went onto a track. The only time I really notice mine day to day, is when crabbing over a speed bump or 3-wheeling into a drive way
I've been to wakefield 3 times and the first time was with the swaybar on medium with stock suspension. 2nd time was sway bar on medium with new bilsteins and springs. 3rd was sway bar on hard with the suspension.
Maybe the 23mm white line adjustable sway bar sucks..but the Improvement with handling was definitely the higher spring rate and bilstein dampeners. I think I could take off the sway bar all together and could not tell the difference... I should try this.
Do you have coilovers lito? Because I think the crabbing it largely due to that with the sway bar. I have springs and struts and even on the hardest setting and the 'crabbing' feeling isn't noticeable.
I've been to wakefield 3 times and the first time was with the swaybar on medium with stock suspension. 2nd time was sway bar on medium with new bilsteins and springs. 3rd was sway bar on hard with the suspension.
Maybe the 23mm white line adjustable sway bar sucks..but the Improvement with handling was definitely the higher spring rate and bilstein dampeners. I think I could take off the sway bar all together and could not tell the difference... I should try this.
Do you have coilovers lito? Because I think the crabbing it largely due to that with the sway bar. I have springs and struts and even on the hardest setting and the 'crabbing' feeling isn't noticeable.
i was going to get a white line bar but was told buy a few people that there rubbish and due to having drop links the sway bar wont work as well as it should , mine bolts straight to the shock mount and has stiffened things up quite a bit
I've been to wakefield 3 times and the first time was with the swaybar on medium with stock suspension. 2nd time was sway bar on medium with new bilsteins and springs. 3rd was sway bar on hard with the suspension.
Maybe the 23mm white line adjustable sway bar sucks..but the Improvement with handling was definitely the higher spring rate and bilstein dampeners. I think I could take off the sway bar all together and could not tell the difference... I should try this.
Do you have coilovers lito? Because I think the crabbing it largely due to that with the sway bar. I have springs and struts and even on the hardest setting and the 'crabbing' feeling isn't noticeable.
Yeah I have kw v1s. So maybe the sway bar is more notice-able with a stiffer suspension setup? By crabbing over speed bumps, I mean just going over them on an angle so I don't scrape. When one back wheel goes over the speed bump you can feel the other wheel lifting up as well and the whole chassis kinda see-saws on the 3 wheels. The sway bar really made the back end want to come around a bit more and made the car feel more neutral, I took a guy out on lakeside with me one day and he said the car feels very similar to his 3.2 TT, just faster
Yeah I have kw v1s. So maybe the sway bar is more notice-able with a stiffer suspension setup? By crabbing over speed bumps, I mean just going over them on an angle so I don't scrape.
Sorry I thought you were referring to the seesaw action as crabbing haha.
Either way I can't complain about my car, it feels very neutral on the track. So maybe the sway bar is doing something.
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