I autocross frequently and I've always wondered what jacking the car up
did for torsional rigidity over time. I've always jacked the front up via
the front engine mount, and the rear from the metal box center section
which connects the two sides of the suspension. Perhaps you can try this
method if you're worried about bending the antiroll bars any more.
Gerald
> My bet is jacking/unjacking is what did it. I've been scared I'm going to
> break endlinks because if I jack up one side from the front, the rear goes
> up too because of the sway bar, so I try to jack up both wheels the same
> amount or d/c the bar first.
>
> > Yesterday I replaced the stock 16mm rear bar with a 22mm Mopar Performance
> > sway bar. (I'm in Street Touring this year.) When I set the factory sway
> > bar on the ground the passenger side lever arm was resting a full inch off
> > the ground while the driver's side arm was flat on the ground. Whether
> this
> > means that the passenger side is bent up or the driver's side is bent down
> I
> > can't tell you.
> >
> > I also don't know if it was bent due to autocrossing in general (which I
> > doubt), hefting one side of the car up in the air at a time to change 2
> > tires for the last 2 years of autocrossing (I never left one side up in
> the
> > air appreciably longer than the other side) or just plain old fashioned
> > metal fatigue. What I can tell you is that it would help explain why the
> > car tended to oversteer while turning one direction and understeered in
> the
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