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Kyle@STILLEN · 11-25-2011, 01:58 PM

Suspension is one of my personal favorites when it comes to tuning vehicles. Whether it's offroad trucks, race cars, motorcycles (both street and dirt) I love fiddling with the suspension to make a vehicle handle better and go faster. Sway bars are a very important aspect of suspension tuning and handling.

You need to take a lot of things into consideration but the most important thing to consider is grip. If you have a lot of tire (meaning slick or something like an R888 or NT05) you can take advantage of a more aggressive bar. Also, if you have good traction (weather dependent) you will inherently have more grip in your tire which will also allow you to "run more bar."

At the end of the day, sway bars need to remain balanced. You might find that your front end is pushing too much so you give it more rear bar to compensate. What this does is actually prevent the car from rolling and actually force it to give up sooner. By forcing the rear of the car to give up you are allowing it to rotate through the turn. Now with that being said, you can go too far and cause the rear to give up too quickly...Again, it's all about finding the balance between front and rear.

We always recommend that people start with the middle setting. This will give you a good feeling of how the bars are going to work and from there you can make your adjustments. If you find the front end pushing too much, you have two options, set the bar back to the softest setting or put more rear into it. If you find the rear is too loose, you can put the front bar to the stiffest setting or drop the rear bar back to the softer setting.

Basically, with the STILLEN bars you have a lot of adjustability.

And yes, our bars are optimized for street and track cars, we do not make our bars for track only cars. With that being said, we still run our bars on our track cars. I am in the process of working with NISSAN on a project that you will see in the next few months and it will be built using off the shelf parts and it will be using our bars...This will be a track ONLY car.

11-25-2011, 01:58 PM	#33 (permalink)
Kyle@STILLEN The370Z.com Sponsor Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Newport Beach Posts: 626 Drives: Toyota Tundra Rep Power: 307	Suspension is one of my personal favorites when it comes to tuning vehicles. Whether it's offroad trucks, race cars, motorcycles (both street and dirt) I love fiddling with the suspension to make a vehicle handle better and go faster. Sway bars are a very important aspect of suspension tuning and handling. You need to take a lot of things into consideration but the most important thing to consider is grip. If you have a lot of tire (meaning slick or something like an R888 or NT05) you can take advantage of a more aggressive bar. Also, if you have good traction (weather dependent) you will inherently have more grip in your tire which will also allow you to "run more bar." At the end of the day, sway bars need to remain balanced. You might find that your front end is pushing too much so you give it more rear bar to compensate. What this does is actually prevent the car from rolling and actually force it to give up sooner. By forcing the rear of the car to give up you are allowing it to rotate through the turn. Now with that being said, you can go too far and cause the rear to give up too quickly...Again, it's all about finding the balance between front and rear. We always recommend that people start with the middle setting. This will give you a good feeling of how the bars are going to work and from there you can make your adjustments. If you find the front end pushing too much, you have two options, set the bar back to the softest setting or put more rear into it. If you find the rear is too loose, you can put the front bar to the stiffest setting or drop the rear bar back to the softer setting. Basically, with the STILLEN bars you have a lot of adjustability. And yes, our bars are optimized for street and track cars, we do not make our bars for track only cars. With that being said, we still run our bars on our track cars. I am in the process of working with NISSAN on a project that you will see in the next few months and it will be built using off the shelf parts and it will be using our bars...This will be a track ONLY car.