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Old August 29th 2003, 17:52
pure55vw pure55vw is offline
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The right idea, Aurumen, but it's actually the opposite. A bigger bar on the front makes the front transfer more weight, which can "overload" the front tires (especially the outside corner), causing them to "slip" more, in turn making the car "plow" or "push" (understeer). The same thing can happen on the rear with a bigger bar there, made worse by the extra load of the rear-engine bias. A possibly dangerous situation which supa ninja discovered when the 3/4 rear bar was installed with a stock front bar ("..incredible amount of oversteer.."). Installing the 7/8 bar re-shifted some weight transfer to the front, with a (probable) decrease in overall roll angle of the car. The OEM's believe that the "average" driver can control a heavy understeer condition much better than a heavy oversteer, so, like you say, most cars are built that way from the factory.
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