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Diff between strut bar and sway bar?


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Supercharged

hee.....i asked this question before.

 

strut bar is for hard cornering in then it strengthens the chasis cos the centripetal force gonna tilt the car......

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Neutral Newbie

strut bar is the one on top of the suspension which can b seen whn u open the bonnet rite??means wif struts bar u roll lesser?

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Neutral Newbie

Go for sway bar (anti-roll bar) 1st then strut bar. They are different. smile.gif Both for better handling

 

Sway bar

Sometimes called the "anti-sway bar," "stabilizer bar," or even "roll-bar." It is usually a round bar which connects the left wheel suspension assembly with the right side. It may be found at the front and/or rear. Its main function is to keep both wheels rolling at the same rate when meeting bumps; but it also affects handling. A front anti-roll bar increases understeer and a rear bar increases oversteer. Normally used only for fine-tuning the car. Not recommended for bumpy tracks. Use a thin bar at first to experiment, then try thicker bars.

 

Strut bar

A Strut Bar (also known as strut tower bar or strut brace) is designed to tie the two opposing strut towers together as a single solid unit. The purpose of a strut tower bar is to reduce flex that these towers experience during hard cornering. When taking a turn a car's strut towers normally flex, resulting in bodyflex and losing some traction.

As Strut Tower Bars are designed to keep your strut towers from flexing, they distribute the pressure applied to one strut tower when taking a turn to both towers instead of just one.

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Supercharged

Its main function is to keep both wheels rolling at the same rate when meeting bumps; but it also affects handling.

 

got animation anot? kinda of hard to visualise it.

 

 

A front anti-roll bar increases understeer and a rear bar increases oversteer. Normally used only for fine-tuning the car.

 

 

why? also kind of hard to understand

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Supercharged

quite well written.clarified a lot of my doubts....

 

so its better to install anti roll bars at rear for our fwd cars?

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aiya..never say...next time i show u my car wan lorr...i got a thin thin sway bar...

 

want to find thinker wann...but pocket too empty...must start saving for next insurance and road tax liao....sigh...the woes of a student-driver.

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Neutral Newbie
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hey bro, got this from the webby. abit techincal smile.gif

 


Improved Handling with Anti-Sway Bars

by John Comeskey of SPS and James Walker of scR motorsports

http://www.teamscr.com/sway.htm

 

Hopefully, after reading the scR Tech Article on tires, the value of tire traction toward constructing a fun-to-drive performance-oriented Saturn has become clear. But there are areas of chassis dynamics that extend beyond the realm of tires. Once you increase the traction threshold at the road surface, then you may be ready to take the next step into improved vehicle handling

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