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Old 2006-04-11, 10:22 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by nKoan
Adding a front anti-sway bar on your car will make the understeer more, not less. The advantage of a front sway bar is to help flatten out the handling of the car and take out some of the oversteer a stiffer rear sway bar adds.
Bite you're tongue!

The current emprical evidence is that a *massive* front swaybar on an STI does so much to prevent the poor dynamic camber inherrant in the STI's MacStrut design that is actually *increases* front end grip, and helps the car to turn, despite the normally accepted logic that a stiffer bar creates understeer.

The AS STI guys are have great success running a huge front bar and big sticky tires. Search NASIOC and IWSTI for the details, but the bottom line is, big (like super big, like 29mm super big) front swaybars are a good thing in AS.
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