i read somewhere online that rear sway bars help FWD cars overcome understeer.. is that true? and what is the exact purpose of a sway bar? do front and rear sway bars do anything different?
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i read somewhere online that rear sway bars help FWD cars overcome understeer.. is that true? and what is the exact purpose of a sway bar? do front and rear sway bars do anything different?
The eaisest way to describe what sway bars do is this. It gives the car better directional stability during hard cornering. This is helpful for a skilled driver who knows his cars limits and it can be catastrophic for a rookie driver. For the rookie driver, it can give a false sense of stability. Think of it like this, ever take an exit ramp too fast and you hear the tires start to chirp, usually this lets you know your just about on the threshold of G forces the car can take before you loose control and spin out. The sway bars job is to extend this threshold, however in doing so, it eliminates the safety zone. So essentially it gives you a false sense of stability, you may take the turn at the same speed as before, but now the tires dont chirp, the car feels nice and tight and all is well, but in actuality the sway bar is just doing its job, so you might be right on the threshold again, but you dont know it. So it makes it more like, your either in control or out of control where as stock your in control, feel like your starting to loose it and then out of control.
Would you recommend sway bars for somebody who is just going to be cruising and not racing?
if cruising means never pushing your car then no.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2000Galant
I will say one thing in that since I got my rear bar, driving in snow has made the car alot more controlable. It used to push like nothing else, but now I can actually turn for one thing, and when I do get breakaway it is alot more even as the whole car goes into a drift, which I can control alot better than when the car pushes. I'd certainly say messing with swaybars is for someone who knows how to handle the car once it starts to break away. You have to be somewhat carefull about hitting your brakes or even lifting throttle mid turn, as the car will be much more prone to letting the back end step out. Fine tuning can help rid the car of the snap oversteer that can come with a really big rear bar, but you have to be willing to do it to make spending the money on the bar worthwhile.
Damned double post.
i hate to bring a post back from the dead, but did the 8g come with a stock read sway bar? i looked under the rear half of my car today and saw one.
You must have a DE. All other models came with rear swaybars.Quote:
Originally Posted by fliegendaffe
no, i have an ES, and i meant rear not read
They all have rear sway bars dude, why??
i didn't realize that. do they have front ones? should i replace the rear sway bar with an after market?
i don't have a rear sway bar (DE), though we all have front sway bars.
My bad, I misread your post.Quote:
Originally Posted by fliegendaffe
should i replace the stock ones? if so is it just the 3g eclipse ones?
The front one is a PITA to change and doesn't need to be changed. You can replace the rear one with an ADDCO one like I have, I have one on both my Galants.
that didn't exactly answer my question. is it a 8g galant one or a 3g eclipse?
there's Galant-specific ones
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mitsu...spagenameZWDVW
When I talk about other cars I will say so. The one I have is made specifically for the Galant.
alright so how about needing the front one? i just put my megan springs and kyb shocks on but in the prosses o getting the old shocks off i stripped the swaybar end links and had to cut them off so now the front swaybar is just sitting in there. i havent driven it yet and i do plan on getting 2 more eng links this week to replace them, i was just wondering if it was cool to drive without it?