drewcrane wrote:my experience with my car came with a front sway bar as it is an r/t,however i installed an origonal "t/a rear sway bar, and the car was too stiff in the rear, i spun the car a couple of times before i removed the rear bar, also by buddie is running a 70 trans am cuda, he has no rear sway bar, when wt speed is when the car get squirrly, and tends to over steer , really bad,
The problem here is wrong suspension rates. Not the sway bar.
Sway bars add a little to the spring rates. So if a car has a tendancy to oversteer at the rear adding a sway bar will make it worse.
Same at the front if it understeers and you uprate the sway bar.
The front and rear suspension rates MUST reflect the front/rear weight of the car. So depending on the weight ballance of your car your idea suspension may be completely different to someone elses.
These rates must also include the sway bar rates.
I spent a lot of time working out the correct rates for my car. In the end I have ended up with a car that corners as flat as a pancake with just a slight amount of understeer at a constant throttle position, ballanced by the power at the rear wheels trying to push it into oversteer.
So if you fitted a rear sway bar and it oversteered it means either the front bar was not big enough to match or your front suspension is too weak.
I cannot stress enough the need for sway bars. If you think you can corner fast without one fitted at each end you are dreaming. Unless the suspension is almost solid.
But you need to put some thought and understanding into the effective suspension spring rates.