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.
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