I wouldnt need to upgrade the front sway as well would i? I've noticed that people have been upgrading the rear as the front is already strong enough. I guess it would be better to upgrade anyway.
Upgrading the front sway bar would also improve steering response. But too stiff at the front and you get soem understeer. Plus, to install the front sway bar is fiddly as you will have to lower the subframe a bit. You can buy aftermarket front sway bars. Swift sells a set.
Careful with a stiffer rear setup.
People tend to think having more oversteer in a FWD car is good.
But if you're nailing it through mountain passes, you're not gonna have much room for error. Tighter roads, traffic etc.
Track is fine though, I ran this setup and adjusted accordingly throughout the day. Spinning out was no biggy.
Touge style driving doesn't offer such a luxury.
I think it's a compromise between a softer setting to absorb bumps + road imperfection. And a stiffer setting to allow for more feedback and less body roll.
If you're hitting 140-150km/hr at the end of some straights on mountain roads. Then you'd want as much tyre to road contact when you drop anchor. Heh.
Super Duper Awesome tyres usually save the day though.
It is easy to lose it if you are pushing 10/10 with a FWD "oversteery" setup. I had that on the track once, when I thought, oversteer should be good. When I had to slightly reduce the throttle (not total lift off) to stop understeering when I entered a corner too hot, it would go straight to oversteer with no neutral steering to keep the car happy. Needless to say, I changed it back to a more neutral setup the next time I went to track.
What was your setup aaronng? Maybe you should have tried the handbrake instead of less throttle
Even the stiffest rear-biased setup won't snap-oversteer for no reason. If you were smooth with the throttle, the rear to front weight transfer will be smooth, and the transition from under-steer has to go through neutral-steer before over-steer. Obviously when it comes to a race-track you've got all sorts of inputs pushing your tyres god knows where. I can see how what happened to you could happen over a small bump. Can't blame driver balance issues on the setup! Unless of course your setup was 400/1000 with a fatty rear swaybar in which case you've done it horrible wrong
I guess you've uncovered the problem with a loose fwd setup like this - you have to dedicate to the corner because there's not many inputs you can give to slow you down without causing major over-steer. This is why you shouldn't drive fast on the streets!!
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