Bars....? What the heck are they?
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DUDE! you must have these.
They are performance upgrades that tighten and stiffen thee flexing chassis. - Thus you get improved handling.
FSTB - $50. 5 minutes to put on yourself.
Rear Sway Bar - $240 ish - 15 minutes tops to put on.
These will transform you car into a much better handling machine - GUARNATEED. Nissan puts em on some of their Infinit's and the late 300Z had em too. But I gues they save money by not including these as standard equipment.
FSTB - $50. 5 minutes to put on yourself.
Rear Sway Bar - $240 ish - 15 minutes tops to put on.
These will transform you car into a much better handling machine - GUARNATEED. Nissan puts em on some of their Infinit's and the late 300Z had em too. But I gues they save money by not including these as standard equipment.
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Hello:
Well, here is how they work:
Strut tower bars... Basically they bolt between the tops of the strut towers and go acrose the engine and trunk. By bolting a big stiff piece of alumimum in the frame work of the car, the frame gets stiffer... which is a very good thing... Think of the strut towers and the contact patch of the tires like a big arc angle... Just a slight flex of the strut towers (i.e. tiny fractions of a degree) can translate into much bigger distances when that same angle is extended out about 3 feet to the ground... so the more the frame is tightened, the more stable the alignment angles are through a turn...
Stabilizer bars...
As a car rolls in a turn, weight is transferred to the outside end of the car... For example, take a left turn and the weight moves to the right... assuming the ride height stays the same, you could have a soft suspension or a bone-crushingly stiff suspension and the same amount of weight will transfer in a turn assuming that speed and radius are the same...
Anyway, a stabilizer bar is rather rigid... So as weight is transfered to the outside of the turn, those wieght transfer forces travel back along the bar towards the inside end of the suspension and for the most part give a downward force on that end of the car... But also, big stiff bars don't bend or stretch easily... If one end of the suspension wants to go up and the other end wants to go down, those tendencies are greatly limited by bolting the bar between the two ends...so you get a lot less body roll
Well, here is how they work:
Strut tower bars... Basically they bolt between the tops of the strut towers and go acrose the engine and trunk. By bolting a big stiff piece of alumimum in the frame work of the car, the frame gets stiffer... which is a very good thing... Think of the strut towers and the contact patch of the tires like a big arc angle... Just a slight flex of the strut towers (i.e. tiny fractions of a degree) can translate into much bigger distances when that same angle is extended out about 3 feet to the ground... so the more the frame is tightened, the more stable the alignment angles are through a turn...
Stabilizer bars...
As a car rolls in a turn, weight is transferred to the outside end of the car... For example, take a left turn and the weight moves to the right... assuming the ride height stays the same, you could have a soft suspension or a bone-crushingly stiff suspension and the same amount of weight will transfer in a turn assuming that speed and radius are the same...
Anyway, a stabilizer bar is rather rigid... So as weight is transfered to the outside of the turn, those wieght transfer forces travel back along the bar towards the inside end of the suspension and for the most part give a downward force on that end of the car... But also, big stiff bars don't bend or stretch easily... If one end of the suspension wants to go up and the other end wants to go down, those tendencies are greatly limited by bolting the bar between the two ends...so you get a lot less body roll
Re: DUDE! you must have these.
Originally posted by VQ Quick
They are performance upgrades that tighten and stiffen thee flexing chassis. - Thus you get improved handling.
FSTB - $50. 5 minutes to put on yourself.
Rear Sway Bar - $240 ish - 15 minutes tops to put on.
These will transform you car into a much better handling machine - GUARNATEED. Nissan puts em on some of their Infinit's and the late 300Z had em too. But I gues they save money by not including these as standard equipment.
They are performance upgrades that tighten and stiffen thee flexing chassis. - Thus you get improved handling.
FSTB - $50. 5 minutes to put on yourself.
Rear Sway Bar - $240 ish - 15 minutes tops to put on.
These will transform you car into a much better handling machine - GUARNATEED. Nissan puts em on some of their Infinit's and the late 300Z had em too. But I gues they save money by not including these as standard equipment.
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