sway bar question
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sway bar question hey yall i have a friend who has a 2000 ram air. he was wondering what the best sway bar to get. he wants to leave his stock front sway bar alone because he says it's 32mm and he wants to get suspension techniques 25mm rear sway bar. however i think that the hotckis is better but he thinks it's way over priced and not worth getting. should he leave the front one and get some other kind of rear sway bar? or should he get the hotchkis sway bar set? thanks....
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Re: sway bar question guns up!! what's the story with the tortilla's? i've always wondered that. gig 'em
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Re: sway bar question just a tradition. i guess a lot of schools have made a big stink about us throwing it but during the game we try to hit our cheerleaders. it's all in good fun though. we even had them at the alamo bowl. however we didn't really throw them on the field, tried to throw them backwards or at the security gaurds.
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Re: sway bar question you wouldn't happen to know the origin of the tradition would you? i always thought it was funny and it made me want fajitas. you know, we aggies have a profound story for everything we do blah blah blah. is it true that one of your horse riders got the horse impaled a while back on a fence post or something? i heard that back at a&m a long time ago. btw, i'm from league city. 518 right where league city and friendswood meet.
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Re: sway bar question Does his car push through corners?
If so, then a larger rear bar will definitely help.
But sway bars are typically a matched set. Mixing them around without proper springs and shocks just puts a band-aid on a handling problem.
Sway bars TUNE a suspension. Springs support the weight.
If so, then a larger rear bar will definitely help.
But sway bars are typically a matched set. Mixing them around without proper springs and shocks just puts a band-aid on a handling problem.
Sway bars TUNE a suspension. Springs support the weight.
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Re: sway bar question well his car currently has the hotchkis(springs, subframe connectors, and strut tower brace) and spohn lower control arms. he still has the stock struts and shocks but about to get stranos revalved bilstein hd shocks. would the 25mm rear sway bar help out a lot? should he get hotchkis set or just get the rear one by another company? is the hotchkis the best?
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Re: sway bar question </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Phatchevy:
<strong>well his car currently has the hotchkis(springs, subframe connectors, and strut tower brace) and spohn lower control arms. he still has the stock struts and shocks but about to get stranos revalved bilstein hd shocks. would the 25mm rear sway bar help out a lot? should he get hotchkis set or just get the rear one by another company? is the hotchkis the best?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No he should get a 21mm swaybar anything 25 and up is for drag racing because it will make the *** end sway when your coming out of a turn because it is trying to plant one tire.Someone else can explain it better than me.
<strong>well his car currently has the hotchkis(springs, subframe connectors, and strut tower brace) and spohn lower control arms. he still has the stock struts and shocks but about to get stranos revalved bilstein hd shocks. would the 25mm rear sway bar help out a lot? should he get hotchkis set or just get the rear one by another company? is the hotchkis the best?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No he should get a 21mm swaybar anything 25 and up is for drag racing because it will make the *** end sway when your coming out of a turn because it is trying to plant one tire.Someone else can explain it better than me.
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Re: sway bar question Sway bars are in effect torsion bars.
Roll the car through right hand corner, it leans to the left, rolling the left side of the bar up, which in turn picks up the right side suspension, thus transferring weight to the inside.
Using this torsion effect, one can tune how much weight is transferred, depending on how much twist resistance the bar has.
Roll the car through right hand corner, it leans to the left, rolling the left side of the bar up, which in turn picks up the right side suspension, thus transferring weight to the inside.
Using this torsion effect, one can tune how much weight is transferred, depending on how much twist resistance the bar has.
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