Front swaybar? Needed or not?

[sikboy]

I've heard of people running no front bar to help decrease front wheel lift?
What rates fr/rr would you use for an aplication w/o a front sway?


Mr Sik

[DSP74]

With the dynamic camber curve of these cars there is NO WAY IN HELL anyone is running without a front bar.

Without a rear bar sure......

Give up on trying to not lift the inside front. It's going to happen. The inside tire won't being doing much of anything if you did tune the car to keep it on the ground. And if you did manage to accoplish that you'd be giving up overall grip with some sort of stupid stiff spring setup..


So to clarify YES it is needed. Go for the biggest one possible which is the IE bar at 25mm. Buy the M3 version and weld m3 swaybar mounts onto the strut housings.

[Kingb]

So is it pretty easy to weld the M3 mounts on the struts? I am sure that there are measurements somewhere. Would you be able to use normal sway just with M3 link??

[BeirBrennerE30]

ummmm... yeah you need it!!!

[sikboy]

Right on I have a customer with an E36 LS1 that is going to run w/o a front bar next year and was wondering if it would work on an E30. So the rear bar is the only one you can remove? What advantage does removing the rear bar give and what are the drawbacks?

[jlevie]

You really need to consider the springs, shocks, and sways as a package. What front/rear sway to run is closely coupled with what springs/shocks are used.