Thread: hotchkis rear sway bar

Is the push: mid turn, entry, exit, all?

Do you have shock dynos? And were they valved for your setup? If not I would start there. Also don't mistake feel for ability to go fast.

For reference. On my miata, if I disconnect my rear bar it is good for 1-1.5seconds on a course.... but it FEELS worse. It just has more grip with step out characteristics that don't feel as good. I can change lap times by >2 seconds by messing with shock settings...

Tire pressures? Pyrometer readings? Have you calculated wheel rates, bounce frequency, roll resistance rate, etc? etc etc I should post a tech sheet for you to fill out.

I totally forgot about this thread!



Scott, your situation is different. What you are doing is exactly what you need to do! I'm betting you need more rear rate though. Have you talked with Kessler? Are you coming up to Mid-O at all this year before nats?




Street cars require alot different school of thought than a race or track only car.



FWD's do like more rear bar. My car became light years better once I raised my rear rates.



All these questions too. Though i tenf to throw the math out the window. It seems to be more black art than science!

You can't compare rear bar on a rwd and rear bar on a fwd car directly though. Both of my RWD car are taking rear bar out in an effort to put power down, and the FWD cars are all adding it to get rotation.