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Originally Posted by AH370Z
No, Who is talking about Track setups? I'm not and the OP asked if the stiff front bar is good for any situation or only track and there are responses like "It's good for any situation when you turn your car hard" I chimed in with my experience focusing on street setup, good street tyres and using a firm setting on my bar no where as stiff as most that get reccomended on here and it seems to have upset the track junkies on here.
I do not need adjustable arms up front, the springs alone got me to -1.5 which was good enough at the time and since adding Koni yellows and replacing all the bushes in the FUCA incuding a double offset for the inner, this has gained me another -0.5 of camber so I am running -2.0 up front which is plenty for my agressive targa tarmac style of driving that I do.
Youtube Targa Tasmania and watch some clips. There is a reason participants are warned to leave their circuit racing mentality at the door. Track and Street racing are completly different and a stiff setup is the last thing you want unless you want to end up in a ditch.
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So many ******* things wrong about this post, where do I start?
Street racing isn’t condoned here, and for normal daily driving who gives a **** about sway bar balance? At normal speeds, it doesn’t matter, you aren’t getting groceries any quicker.
A good coilovers setup won’t be “overly stiff” - the whole ******* point of spending money on coilovers to get adjustable height and damping AND better quality springs and dampers which are matched to each other AND YOUR INTENDED DRIVING STYLE. if you don’t know how to pick a good coilovers, there should be a suspension shop or manufacturer competent enough to do it for you
Adjusting camber with bushings and drop springs isn’t adjusting camber at all, you’re just randomly getting whatever spec is the side effect of lowering the car.
An adjustable front arm, specifically the SPL one, isn’t a “stiff setup’, it doesn’t affect stiffness at all. Maybe more feedback front replacing a bushing that may be worn, and going from rubber to metal, but the point is to be able to set your camber or caster to whatever you need.
Furthermore, the original post is from 2017. This thread has very clearly turned in a more track oriented discussion, YOU decided to weigh in with a perspective clearly limited in understanding of how suspension parts work and your own limitations as a driver
If you really think slapping a stiff front bar will suddenly turn your car into a death machin with snap oversteer, you’re just telling us you can’t ******* or are putting your self in suboptimal positions on purpose