Anti roll bar

[flyerncle]

Glued to the tarmac Sean !

[HandyAndy]

Cherno...
i,ve just been reading your blog pages ( well looking at the photos/video,s as can,t read French ), you have a very nice car

contact forum member "Slimtater" to get your forum badge for a completed car.

well done mate

cheers
andy

[snapper]

An anti roll bar helps the handling by allowing softer damper and spring rates while indeed reducing roll. Roll bars can be adjustable by varying where you attach the uplinks relative to the wishbones and the forward or rear link bars i.e the bits of the roll bar that point back or forward relative to the part that runs across the car.
On my (not a haynes) car the sierra anti roll bar forms part of the lower wishbone with the standard track control arm, in this configuration it is indeed to stiff, even the thinnest of fords anti roll bars is to thick.
So i milled the bar across half of its width to half thickness and it works well.
Using standard steel rod will probably not work as it is not sprung and would just twist and settle over time.

[NEroadster]

By adding an anti roll bar you are increasing the overall spring stiffness at that end of the car whilst this does allow a reduction in coil spring to acheive the same overall spring stiffness value and therefore increase comfort levels. By introducing a roll bar front or rear you can effect the amount of understeer or oversteer the car suffers from. On a well balanced car this is can be seen as uneccessary. let us know what happens

[flyerncle]

Have a look at page 159 in the book and it gives pro's and con's to using anti roll bars and the effect on steering and under/oversteer along with damper,tyre settings etc.
I must agree with HandyAndy after being in and now having driven Spud's Roadster it handles like a kart (all credit to the builder and attention to detail and setup,absolutely magic! If you want Roadster parts these are the boys.)

Experimentation is the only way to find out unless someone has the software to do it and it will be interesting to see the outcome.

And it is the nut behind the wheel, not the nut holding it on that is the cause of all the problems

Good luck.