In normal day to day traffic you probably wouldn't notice much, if any
difference. In situations where the springs are quickly loaded, fast lane
changes, your bump situation, etc. the spring / torque bar combo is put into
a mutual bind then rapidly released snapping the rear loose. It's aggravated
by the extreme forward weight bias also. 56 / 44% with a full tank of gas,
which of course gets worse as the tank nears empty, further reducing
traction. I bought mine on a whim and didn't even notice it had links. The
first evening I accelerated hard up an uphill on ramp and quickly flicked
over to the fast lane I went into a car's equivalent of a motorcycle "tank
slapper". As I angled right into the fast lane it snapped left, hard.
Between my countersteering and continuing rear right, left binding; I had my
hands full to say the least. At first I thought I had had a blowout, since
this is what it felt like. Once I had a chance to check the car in detail,
off came the bars. Yes, a swaybar is a must for high speed control, plus a
watts linkage to control side to side motion.
GM
-----Original Message-----
>I still have the torque links on my car simply because i am lazy. I didn't
>know about the "problem" with them until i talked to Terry a few years ago.
>But what he described to me was something i had experienced I.E. going
around
>a turn, on a street, and hitting a bump and the whole car sliding sideways.
>Now how the links affect this i don't know. But maybe someone out there can
>tell us what real life differences they found when they removed the links.
>Also, terry and i discussed racing the car and he suggested a rear sway for
>sure. Pugs
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