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Posted by Kyle [Email] (more from Kyle) on Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:13:16 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: Quantification is overrated., Quasi, Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:04:03
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I explained before how I immediately noticed an increase in stiffness when I switched to poly sway bar end-link bushings. Therefore, I can only imagine how much stiffer the ride would be with a 25mm bar AND poly bushings as well.

Quasi-
I STRONGLY encourage you to try swiching back to rubber on the front ONLY.
I think you would be plesantly suprised at the subtle, yet significant way that it softens the ride without diminishing the beneficial effects of the thicker bars. It would certainly diminish your hyper-awareness of micro variations in pavenet smothness.

When I get the SAS bars, I intend to try every possible configuration (that is, combinations of rubber and poly) until I find the one that best suits my needs.
With the stock end-link, you can only modify the bottom bushings that connect to the lower control arm. It appears that the SAS bars have not just one, but TWO sets of polyurethane end-link bushings to play with. This offers four possible configurations for the end-link bushings, and if you add the inner bushing that holds the bar to the subframe then you have eight possible configurations to try.

I'm not suggesting that you should go that far, but it would be simple enough to switch to all rubber and see how it feels.

The switch should only take about 10-20 minutes for each side because you can change the end link bushings without removing anything but the wheel (at least you can with the stock bar).

When you're finished, you can keep all of the left-over bushings in the center console to throw at cars that cut you off, or maybe chew on them as a "stress reliever" while stuck in traffic.

Just some ideas...

-Kyle
'91 9000T




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