The X-Effect Of Sway Bar Tuning

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FJCamper
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The X-Effect Of Sway Bar Tuning

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Okay. They're really not sway bars, but anti-roll bars. Shocks/dampeners, to-ma-to/to-mah-to.

Everybody understands that these simple devices resist body roll from side to side, but that they have an exotic X-effect is rarely a subject.

The front bar, for instance, throws weight to the rear, and the rear bar throws weight to the front, in an X-pattern. Left front wheel to right rear wheel, etc.

If a front wheel is lifting right off the road in a tight, high-G corner, you "push" it back down by increasing the rear roll stiffness. And vice versa.

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You're my hero, you know that?

Didn't Audi have an active weight transfer system that helped reduce dive and squat for this?
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this is good or bad ?? sorry for that silly question :( but havent understand if that helps or not the car.... (english are not my main language )
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Stability

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Hi DORIGTT,

To be honest, I don't recall all the Audi tricks, but with that bunch anything was possible.

In my experience, most VW people use sway bars that are too heavy. Of course, a 22mm bar bent a certain way might act the same as a 19mm bar bent another way. And let's don't even get started on tuning with adjustable end links.

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