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View Poll Results: Which sway bars offer the best performance? | |||
H&R | 1 | 33.33% | |
Hotchkis | 2 | 66.67% | |
Hyrbid (Front from one, rear from other) | 0 | 0% | |
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10-22-2010, 12:09 PM | #1 |
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Sway Bars Decision
I'm torn between H&R and Hotchkis (which arethicker ). Should I get F+R H&R's or F+R Hotchkis. Or should I do some sort of hyrid (Front from one and rear from another)?
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10-24-2010, 11:34 AM | #2 |
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Just bear in mind how the different bars will effect your handling. What are you trying to do by changing them out. Get more over steer? Less over steer? High speed corner stability?
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10-24-2010, 01:55 PM | #3 |
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Both H&R and Hotchkis are adjustable bars - though the Hotchkis are a bit thicker and thus offer somewhat higher maximum stiffness. Unless you are planning to run these at the max stiffness setting their performance will be about the same.
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10-27-2010, 02:17 PM | #4 |
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I would say more oversteer. I just want to be able to control the car with the slightest movement of the steering wheel. More feedback from the car when I turn the wheel.
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Also tires have a big input on feedback. The stock tires are not that great. http://www.zpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=422123 http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...ight=sway+bars I would respectfully recommend before you start throwing parts at the car, search a little more on this board and others to see what works and what does not. It will save you some money and it will be time well spent. |
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10-27-2010, 04:32 PM | #6 |
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Are you tracking the car, autox, or just street driving? Just wondering about using the right part for the right job. Are you sure you need bigger anti-roll bars at all? Does the car actually roll too much side to side when you drive? Or just not turn quickly enough four you?
Tires, alignment and suspension adjustments sound like the things you might try first to get "more feedback from the car when you turn the wheel." IMHO the anti-roll bars aren't the first place to look to find what you're after. A four wheel alignment is generally not very expensive but has has huge positive impact on the handling. The factory alignment specs are 'conservative' for 'safety' and dont realize the potential of the car. Look around at some more agressive alignment specs because that will totally wake the car up. Then you can add sway bars if you think you really need them. Looks like Shipkiller was posting basically the same thing at the same time - heh - so that's two votes for ties/alighment tweaking before you spend $$$. |
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