Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 08:05 am, by: Scott Wilkes(Scottywilkes)
Searching for some swaybars for the soarer, currently have a white line bar in the back but dosnt seem all that much improvement on the factory swaybar. Searching for the stiffest I can find. Any help would be much appreciated
Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 10:07 pm, by: Spencer Cameron(Switchio)
In a rear wheel drive car replacing the front swaybar is supposed to have more of an impact. Your profile says your running King springs over the standard TEMS shocks. I'm no expert on the TEMS system, but dosent it adjust the dampers to suppress body roll, that would kind of make the swaybar more or less redundant.
Anyway, if you want better handling, your best bet is to start with a good set of coilovers. Well setup springs and dampers do heaps more to control body roll than swaybars.
Sunday, November 11, 2012 - 05:49 am, by: Scott Wilkes(Scottywilkes)
I'm running Bc coilovers mate. Havnt touched my profile for years.
I havnt had the chance to get a good front swaybar yet so might start there. I think alot of my movement in the back end is from the subframe moving around, I have the superpro drift pineapples in the diff a subframe mounts but I don't think there that effective as still have issues with tramp bad. Wanting to sort these issues out before its tune in a couple weeks cause 350+rwkw is going to take its toll on parts
Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 02:09 am, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
Spencer Cameron wrote on Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 10:07 pm:
In a rear wheel drive car replacing the front swaybar is supposed to have more of an impact
Correct. There is a school of thought in racing circles that rear sway bars do more harm than good in a rear wheel drive chassis. It is something I aim to delve into one day when the car is running consistently on the track.
Most people replace front and rear bars at the same time. If you had to do them in priotity order, then front takes precedence over the rear.
Spencer Cameron wrote on Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 10:07 pm:
Well setup springs and dampers do heaps more to control body roll than swaybars.
Wrong. Sway bars, or anti roll bars, are designed specifically to control what is commonly described as body roll. By running sway bars you can select a spring and damper rate that best supports the tyres contact patch on the road, and use a sway bar to effectively add stiffness to the corner that needs it under cornering loads. Sway bars are usually the most powerful suspension change you can make to an otherwise standard setup.
Matt Newman wrote on Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 11:19 pm:
you could always swap your rear sub frame mounts for supra ones and a run a supra swaybar
Why? Supra bars are no stiffer. Unless you want to use a stiffer aftermarket bar like the Titan one.
Sunday, December 02, 2012 - 04:35 pm, by: Costa Tsimiklis(Driftshop)
The ultimate off shelf rear swaybar setup would be a set of my Alloy Bushes and running a whiteline Supra Sway Bar at the stiffest setting.
Reason being - the lever length of the Supra Swaybar, vs the Soarer swaybar, is SHORTER - thus more torque is required for it to twist for each mm, therefore the swaybar is automatically stiffer by design.
It's a worthwhile upgrade considering the swaybar on the soarer is mounted to the boot floor rather than the subframe.
The reason for the Supra swaybar re-design is due to the fuel tank in the supra being in the way of where a soarer swaybar would normally mount to.
Also keep in mind that the soarer and supra swaybars cand tend to FLIP when installed incorrectly, causing the links to dislocate and thus not be effective and transferring the load into the swaybar.