Rear anti sway bars

[rblong]

I completed my fronts and it is great and want to move to the rears, but I read some of the old threads that indicate that rears may cause steering problems. I have a 9 inch ford with 4 link. Does anyone have any experience? I am not a racer but I do like to run the winding roads. My other sports cars have fronts and rears. My cob is handling pretty dang good now , but with close to 50/50 weight distribution I would think reare would help also.

Any help would be appreciated.

Bruce

[strictlypersonl]

Adding a rear anti-sway bar will reduce understeer or increase oversteer. If you don't have excessive understeer, don't fix what ain't broke. As a general rule, solid axles have a higher roll center than the front independent suspension, so there is more resistance to roll built into the geometry.

[392cobra]

Bruce,
It feels better now with the front bar because you decreased the oversteer.But also increased it's understeer.

Nice job !

[392cobra]

The bars do reduce sway,duh.
They also put more down force on the outside wheel and reduce the down force on the inside wheel.You can get it to the point it actually lifts the inside wheel off the ground under hard cornering.
The rear bar on my STi has three setting.On the stiffest setting it makes it real easy to throw the rearend out.Middle setting it is nuetral.Softest increases understeer.

Sounds like you might be just fine where you are now.

[rblong]

Thanks, I am thinking I need to spend more time before I go diving into the rear. It used to roll really bad, bad enough to drag the pipes, now it tracks really flat - probably almost as good as my wife's 3 series BMW and it has sport suspension. I may still add some on if I can come up with a good bolt on unit. If I could find a pre-bent bar it would really be easy to fab and it would not be expensive. I could easily just take the back off if I did not like them.

I started into this because I have someone with a 300 ZX I been playing with that I could smoke on straights, but he would embarasse me in turns. I rolled so bad (especially in hard right hand turns) that I had to get way out of the throttle. The front sway bars have allowed me to power tru the turns - don't see his tail lights near as much any more!

[rblong]

I have been talking to Hellwig and have a drawing made for what will work for rears. I tried to post drawing but I did in powerpoint and it won't post. I am gonna fax to hellwig tomorrow and see if they can fab. If they will I will pass on info.

Bruce