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quote:Originally posted by Sci-Fi
Adding a Mismatched or Larger diameter rear bar may induce dangerous oversteer.
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There are nothing dangerous by simply going with a larger bar. Increasing the diameter a bit will reduce understeer, bringing a more neutral steering condition. It's not black/white, only understeer or oversteer. I'm opting for neutral . . . less understeer. True, too, going more than 1/4-inch larger (than OEM) diameter rear bar, while retaining the OEM front bar, goes beyond neutral, into oversteer, and beyond.
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quote:Originally posted by Sci-Fi
. . . since the existing front bar is the same diameter for all years of PT's, adding the stock rear bar would make it a properly matched set.
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Actually, doing this still would create, as you stated . . . "
some Understeer is usually favored by car manufactorers ".
Installing OEM simply gives you back the control that DC decided you no longer needed.
Good job, JohnM. It's amazing the potential our cars have, and I agree with you on the personal satisfaction and performance-gain-for-the-buck that the addition of the bar adds to us antisway-deprived GT owners. However, for increased performance, control, and more neutral steering, you still need to go beyond the OEM bar. With sway bars, a little bigger diameter yields big results.
Anyone personally have the Addco sway bars??
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