[QUOTE]Originally posted by krazik
I ran an xbrace for many years, then removed it.

 

track only now, and many are not smooth. furthermore I'm running spring rates 4x that of stock so my car is going to flex a lot more over bumps than any car might on the street, no matter how rough.

My car was a street car for the first 3 years of its life too, both with and without the brace.

 

Frystryke btw:

in regards to softer rear of the 04, a lot of us MY00-03 track junkies now run no rear sway bar at all. talk about soft rear end, but its hooked up and there is minimal wheelspin now. So a softer (aka more independant) rear is actually what the s2k needed all long.

IMO as always and I'm not sugesting you all go out and disconnect your rear bar, but those of you who drive hard a lot, might like the change. Cost is cheap too just disconnect 1 endlink.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by krazik
Frystryke btw:

in regards to softer rear of the 04, a lot of us MY00-03 track junkies now run no rear sway bar at all.

 

Hmm well if you can understand how stiffening the front helps then you already understand. They do the same thing except....

stiffening the front bar induces more understeer - aka reduces oversteer by making the front end break away first.
softening the rear bar reduces oversteer by allowing the the rear wheels to stay in better contact of the road.

I didn't say that I'm the only one running no rear bar. there are many others too, and none have spring rates like mine. If you're stock shocked and aren't a stock class auto-xer, you should get an 04 softer rear sway bar and you'll get the same effect as the saner of reducing oversteer without sacrificing frontend tracktion. The only reason to run a bar as beefy as the saner is to comply w/ stock autox rules that say you can't change the rear bar.

Thread hijacked. :|

 

Thanks for the info kraz.