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Ranger wrote:
[quote]It’s confusing to think of the sway bar as a spring.
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Don’t take it from me, take it from Wikipedia.
A sway bar (also stabilizer bar, anti-sway bar, roll bar, or anti-roll bar, ARB ) is an automobile suspension device. It connects opposite (left/right) wheels together through short lever arms linked by a torsion spring. A sway bar increases the suspension’s roll stiffness - its resistance to roll in turns, independent of its spring rate in the vertical direction.
Steve D wrote:
[quote]Ranger wrote:
[quote]It’s confusing to think of the sway bar as a spring.
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Don’t take it from me, take it from Wikipedia.
A sway bar (also stabilizer bar, anti-sway bar, roll bar, or anti-roll bar, ARB ) is an automobile suspension device. It connects opposite (left/right) wheels together through short lever arms linked by a torsion spring. A sway bar increases the suspension’s roll stiffness - its resistance to roll in turns, independent of its spring rate in the vertical direction.[/quote]
Sure, it’s a torsion bar, but it’s still confusing to think of it as a spring. When a person starts talking about a sway bar as a spring it’s easy to get confused about the interaction of a sway bar and the car’s coil springs.
For me, it’s more simple to think of a sway bar as simply resisting roll by lifting the inside tire and pressing down the outside tire. The extent of the resisting being a function of the stiffness of the bar.
Sway bar/no sway, aero/no areo…
Hire Skeen or White and find out what the car will really do.
For me: I don’t want to be embarrased that badly.
RP
dmwhite wrote:
[quote]Ranger wrote:
and there will ALWAYS be a need/demand for that in racing! ;)[/quote]
Look what I found on my way home tonight. 
