Whiteline Swaybar Settings

[mr_rbman]

I have some adjustable whiteline swaybars for my R32 and i'm just looking for some recommended settings for my car, hard/medium/soft?

the car is a weekender that spends most of its time in the hills and will sometimes see the track for drift and grip racing!

I was thinking medium/hard for the rear and medium/soft for the front!

Can people with experiences in this field please give me their input!

cheers in advance!

[ISC-Performance]

hey iam fitting mine up next week ill let you no how they feel, ill be setting the rear hard and front medium....just dont set the front to hard or youll be understering!

[mr_rbman]

hey iam fitting mine up next week ill let you no how they feel, ill be setting the rear hard and front medium....just dont set the front to hard or youll be understering!

i'd heard not to set it too hard at the front, for that reason i was going to go soft. let me know how you go!

[Bl4cK32]

soft front and rear unless its for the track

[djr81]

It depends greatly on what other suspension components you have fitted. Best bet is to start soft at both ends and go from there.

If you want to drift the thing put the rear on full hard & the front on full soft.

[Roy]

Ditto this is so much a personal preference thing, and a sum of the other mods you have.

As for setting the front to hard causing understeer, ill enter my car into evidence as exhibit A for not understeering...and R32_bigboy as exhibit 2 as he now has my swaybars and we set them to hard both front and rear and it handles nicely....so?!?!?!

[mr_rbman]

Ditto this is so much a personal preference thing, and a sum of the other mods you have.

As for setting the front to hard causing understeer, ill enter my car into evidence as exhibit A for not understeering...and R32_bigboy as exhibit 2 as he now has my swaybars and we set them to hard both front and rear and it handles nicely....so?!?!?!

mmmmm

i'm thinking i may set both to medium to start with and go from there!

[Ryno]

mmmmm

i'm thinking i may set both to medium to start with and go from there!

I have both my sway bars set at medium.

I first installed these as the only mod to the standard suspension, and noticed a massive improvement - with very little under steer.

I have since installed everything else in Sydneykids package of goodies, and made another step forward in the cars handling. However, now at the limit, it tends to under steer a little. As such I am now considering stiffening up the front sway bar to hard, to dial this out. Thoughts?

Edited April 28, 2006 by Ryno

[djr81]

I have both my sway bars set at medium.

I first installed these as the only mod to the standard suspension, and noticed a massive improvement - with very little under steer.

I have since installed everything else in Sydneykids package of goodies, and made another set forward in the cars handling. However, now at the limit, it tends to under steer a little. As such I am now considering stiffening up the front sway bar to hard, to dial this out. Thoughts?

First thought is that you have it upside down, Miss Jane.

If you want less understeer soften the front bar (or stiffen the rear). Increasing roll stiffness with anti roll bars will (all other things being equal) degrade the grip at whichever end of the car you make the adjustment. Which is why you start tuning with the bars on soft and then stiffen things up at one end to balance the car out.

[Sydneykid]

I have both my sway bars set at medium.

I first installed these as the only mod to the standard suspension, and noticed a massive improvement - with very little under steer.

I have since installed everything else in Sydneykids package of goodies, and made another set forward in the cars handling. However, now at the limit, it tends to under steer a little. As such I am now considering stiffening up the front sway bar to hard, to dial this out. Thoughts?

Personally I adjust the opposite end to that with a problem. For example, to lessen the understeer I stiffen up the rear anti roll bar. If the rear bar is at full hard and I still have understeer, then I soften the front.

cheers

[Ryno]

Personally I adjust the opposite end to that with a problem. For example, to lessen the understeer I stiffen up the rear anti roll bar. If the rear bar is at full hard and I still have understeer, then I soften the front.

cheers

Sweet, stiffening the rear it is.

[djr81]

Sweet, stiffening the rear it is.

There are a couple of things to note:

1: In steady state cornering anti roll bars kill grip! An ugly truth, but there it is. They work by transferring load from the unloaded side of the car to the loaded side. Note that after a point the friction coefficient for a tyre falls away the more heavily loaded it is. (This is ignores temperature effects)

2: It may well be worth comparing the cars grip levels with the front soft/rear at medium with the front on medium/rear on hard. Remember balance and grip are two different things. Try it see if you can find which you prefer. (This all assumes one level of adjustment is sufficient)