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Re: TR Front Anti-Sway Bar - Wow!!!

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Subject: Re: TR Front Anti-Sway Bar - Wow!!!
From: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@cruzers.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 01 22:02:12 -0700
>>  >Over the weekend, finishing up Sunday night, I installed an ADDCO
>>>3/4" anti-sway bar
>>
>>>I feel "born again".  The TR4 is transformed.  The handling has
>>>more of that TR6 front end stiffness.  The drastically reduced
>>  >body roll is wonderful.  The car just goes where I tell it.
>>
>>Yep.  I put one on the front of my TR3A  early this spring and agree
>>100%.  Stifening up the front end with an anti sway bar makes a huge
>>difference in handling around curves 8*)
>
>No doubt both of you will also be noticing more pronounced 
>understeer
> if you do, and it bothers you, time to add a rear bar as 
>well!


I've spent a lot of time chatting with TR3 & 4 racers about suspension.  
The short answer is you want a stiff front and a stockish rear 
suspension.  

Almost no one is racing with a rear say bar on a TR3 because it makes 
handling less predictable and it doesn't really help high speed cornering.

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