I understand your question. The length of the bar is needed for the model. Then, in the model, you build the arms and "slip" them onto the ends (where the splines are in the real world.) Then I made the arms and bar one part - which is escentially what you are doing with the splines.

I hope that answers your question.

Thanks

 

Good point. I forgot you would "assemble" these in the program and then analyse.

 

Here is something interesting.

I have the factory front bar OFF the car right now to test it.

The rear tires are Hankook RS2's, 6 month old, 4000 miles, and about 25 autocross runs on them.

I have neg 2.2 degrees rear camber.

Recently, I noticed that the rear tires were getting less grippy.

When I removed the front bar, I expected the car to oversteer more or the street (aggressive driving). It seems to have done the opposite!

I think the car is rolling more and rolling the rear outside tire onto an area with grippyer rubber. The inside rear tire is definately being unloaded (enough to spin). The front is loading the outside tire more (obviously).

It seems that the combination of less grip in the front and more grip in the rear is making the car unexpectly neutral.

FWIW,
Tim

EDIT: Another point could be just how minimal the factory bar is! If you look up the specs for 00-01 and 02-03, the as the spring rates rise in the later year AP1, the swaybar diameter went down. It is as if Honda engineers were simply trying to keep the rear tires planted - bearly.

 

Any updates on this?