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Old 03-19-11, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Kurtz
Did you read my entire post? I explain in some detail.

The problem is twofold, but it's less the rear bar as the bigger issue, it's the oversized front bar.
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Why is the oversized front a bad thing? I was about to install a Hotchkis front with F-sport rear that I have and wondered your indepth reasons.
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Originally Posted by pfdaxe
Kurtz:

Why is the oversized front a bad thing? I was about to install a Hotchkis front with F-sport rear that I have and wondered your indepth reasons.
Sorry was out of the country with no real net access for a few weeks there...


A larger front bar makes the car understeer more. One reason you'd want to do sways in the first place is to try and correct the fact the car already understeers too much from the factory.

Hence the Hotchkis setup will understeer more than the F-sport setup will, hence I believe the F-sport setup to be superior to the Hotchkis one.
Old 04-05-11, 06:24 PM
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F-sport is a better setup like Kurtz said. You really don't want the front to have a large bar at this point.
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