Thread: Anti-roll bars?
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Old 18th September 2014, 11:07 AM
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Difficult subject this depending on your point of view. There are people who say that an anti roll bar is needed because their car has too much body roll through corners, how ever I wonder if they have ever had their car corner weighted to gain the correct spring rates along with matched piston valves, adjustable bump and rebound coilovers? It is often the case that people just don't spend money on the right parts of the suspension and get it set up properly to get the best from what they all ready have.
Coming from racing in Autograss you see people putting a pair of 1000cc bike engines in the back of a mini and spending £200 on coilovers and springs then wonder why they get blown away by a single bike engine with £1000 suspension set up?
It's all very well putting a 200hp+ engine in your Roadster but if all you are going to do is follow the heard with the spring poundage,buy the cheapest coilovers and just go with tracking setup by an MOT station don't complain that it's not the 'drives like it's on rails' car that you thought it would be.
One of the reasons that the Roadster or the Locost does not have an antiroll bar is that the chassis is so sparse at the front that the whole thing twists as it goes over bumps and round corners, if you add an anti roll bar to that how long will the mounts on your 1.5mm walled chassis last?
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