My apologies. I was obviously already asleep when I wrote "thicker rear bar". Should have been "thicker front bar".
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Ed <email99@bellsouth.net> wrote: > A thicker rear stabilizer bar will cause more oversteer not understeer. A > rear stabilizer bar will decrease the traction of the rear, relative to the > front, in a turn. > > > The reason many cars have only a front stabilizer bar is to insure a > predictable amount of understeer so the average driver will not get into > trouble. Adding a rear bar increases the amount of oversteer so most > manufactures increase the size of the front bar when a rear bar is added. > > Ed > > > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:02:31 -0700, Jake de Villiers > <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > >Sure it is Scott - understeer is understeer, whether via a thicker rear > bar, > >harder rear tires or dual rear wheels. > > > >All of those things make the rear resist directional change. > > > >Yuck > > >
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