[Spits] Front swaybar

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In a message dated 12/27/2007 7:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
spitlist at cox.net writes:

Increasing front stiffness (springs, shocks or sway bar) will increase  the
potential for understeer.  Compensating for too much understeer  is
accomplished by adding stiffness to the  rear.



==AM==
I'm with you, Joe. And I can "prove" it from personal experience. Back in  
the 1970s when I was autocrossing my essentially stock GT6+, I often ran against 
 another 6+. It was also essentially stock, except that the owner had added 
the  thicker front sway bar from a later swing-spring Spitfire. We swapped cars 
 occasionally, and there was no question in my mind that his car was much 
more  prone to plowing like a Ferguson tractor. ;-)
 
"Racing" Spitfires are a whole 'nuther story, since suspension  modifications 
are not limited to just a thicker front sway bar.
 
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