What Does the Front Sway bar actually do??
08-30-2009, 11:53 PM
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What Does the Front Sway bar actually do??
Would It be necessary to replace those old dry rotted end links and bushings on the front sway bar of a 93 GXE?? I see that autozone carries a rebuild kit for the end links of the front sway bar for like $7. I was gonna get that, but I took a look at the links and those bushings and washers look like they are stuck togather.
08-31-2009, 08:43 AM
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Bigger front bar increases understeer or decreases oversteer/ smaller front decreases understeer or increases oversteer/A bigger rear bar increases oversteer or decreases understeer/ a smaller increases understeer or decreases oversteer... Thats why most FWD Maximas only upgrade the rear swaybar size to increase the oversteer and decrease some of that excessive built in understeer (for safety of the inexperienced)!
08-31-2009, 09:11 AM
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08-31-2009, 01:37 PM
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is it true that on a FWD car you want to do the rear bar first, if you are only doing one? i heard this from someone on the org... tho i always take what they say with a grain of salt.
08-31-2009, 01:43 PM
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it sort of makes sense tho. if your front is TOO stiff, and the rear isn't, then you will compress the ouside rear, and kinda lift the inside front tire a little bit. this is what's happening to my car... not because of swaybars (well maybe... i have a GXE rear swaybar) but moreso due to my blown rear struts. we were attempting to do some mountain driving and i kept lifting the inside front tire around every decently hard turn.
08-31-2009, 01:50 PM
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I dunno. I understand the logic but when I put the front bar on, it really kept the front flat, therefore not allowing the rear to rise up.
Ie.. left turn would cause the front right to dip and therefore raise the left rear. A stiller front bar would reduce the front right dip and therefore the rear left raise.
Only my theory
Ie.. left turn would cause the front right to dip and therefore raise the left rear. A stiller front bar would reduce the front right dip and therefore the rear left raise.
Only my theory
08-31-2009, 02:01 PM
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I dunno. I understand the logic but when I put the front bar on, it really kept the front flat, therefore not allowing the rear to rise up.
Ie.. left turn would cause the front right to dip and therefore raise the left rear. A stiller front bar would reduce the front right dip and therefore the rear left raise.
Only my theory
Ie.. left turn would cause the front right to dip and therefore raise the left rear. A stiller front bar would reduce the front right dip and therefore the rear left raise.
Only my theory
08-31-2009, 02:20 PM
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of course on a severely-dropped machpherson-suspended car you kindof throw all that out of whack. but i see your point.. technically you really want the tires to do the most equal amount of work possible
08-31-2009, 05:33 PM
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Bigger front bar increases understeer or decreases oversteer/ smaller front decreases understeer or increases oversteer/A bigger rear bar increases oversteer or decreases understeer/ a smaller increases understeer or decreases oversteer... Thats why most FWD Maximas only upgrade the rear swaybar size to increase the oversteer and decrease some of that excessive built in understeer (for safety of the inexperienced)!
I always thought the reason 4 and 5 gens didn't have an aftermarket bar is because you have to drop the entire front subframe to get the factory one out. that'd really throw a hitch in my giddyup if I wanted a FSB on my 5 gen....
08-31-2009, 07:03 PM
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Yeah that might be a reason there as well...but these cars and most Fwd suffer from extreme understeer so the nonexperienced can't get themselves into a really bad situation unless thier really doing something real stupid! Decreasing the understeer and increasing the oversteer to a point where the balance is still safe, with great turn in and body rotation thru a turn by utilizing a larger rear swaybar! You can always change to an SE front bar with ES bushings and Moog endlinks if you're in a GLE or GXE 5th/5.5....
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