What does swaybar preloading do?
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From: CONCORD NC
Re: What does swaybar preloading do? (City_Cobra)
In general, you want to avoid it. You usually set the corner weight of a track car with the bars disconnected. You want all of the wheels to carry an even load, not have the fl/rr carrying more weight than the fr/lr. THEN, you re-attach the bars so that they do not force the individual wheels to jack weight in or out of that corner. Obviously, with OEM end links, they are not adjustable, and cannot be done correctly.
Pre-loading with similar to pre-loading with springs. Nascar calls it "wedge" and can be effecting at fine tuning understeer/oversteer in one direction only.
Dave
Pre-loading with similar to pre-loading with springs. Nascar calls it "wedge" and can be effecting at fine tuning understeer/oversteer in one direction only.
Dave
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From: Austin Tx
Re: What does swaybar preloading do? (davidfarmer)
The question remains:
So after you get a car corner weighted and it is still not square to the road (unequal weights left/right but equal on the diagonal) can you use preload on sway bar to compensate for that unsymetric weight that the springs are not capable of "nulling'" out?
So after you get a car corner weighted and it is still not square to the road (unequal weights left/right but equal on the diagonal) can you use preload on sway bar to compensate for that unsymetric weight that the springs are not capable of "nulling'" out?
