Adjustable sway bar

[sachmo133]

I have a Steeda adjustable sway bar, and I feel the rear end kicks out a little too much on track. Some of it is me getting on the gas too soon but overall the car has more oversteer. If I went to the middle setting on the rear would it help this? Right now it is on the first (softest).

Steeda Mustang Adjustable Competition Rear Sway Bar is what I have.

The car is a Mach 1 nonHP but I have added the Steeda Dual Rate springs and stop-the-hop kit. It also has the Adj Camber plates with a Mach 1 HP track alignment.

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[kz]

Is it just rear bar ? More rear bar will increase ovesteer so if you want less than softest, go back to stock, just you have to be looking at steady state cornering or corner entry/exit, not when getting on the throttle.

 

[NightmareMoon]

If you want to reduce power oversteer you want to soften the rear bar or stiffen the front.

I'm not sure why everybody sells such big rear bars, IMHO the sweet spot is softer than most of these aftermarket rear bars. The fronts are fine. I don't like going to the stiffest settings on the front bars in most cases its too much.

So, usually the advice here on the forum is to run a stock or GT350 rear bar (i.e. a milder rear bar) with a common adjustable front on the soft or middle setting, instead of going to one of the common adjustable rear bars.

Or call Steeda and ask them. They sold you the damn thing.

My own car (which used to have Steed DR springs) ran an out-of-production Strano adj rear bar which is probably akin to a GT350R bar on the setting I'm using, and yes its on the milder side. I paired that with a BMR adjustable front bar and the car was "neutral" by my estimation. A lot of people prefer even more understeer than that however, which is why you might be better off with an stock-like rear bar.

The good news is rear bars take like 5 minutes to swap out, so if you pick up another one or two to try out, its really easy to pop those in and out, unlike the fronts.

 

[sachmo133]

If you want to reduce power oversteer you want to soften the rear bar or stiffen the front.

Thanks that is helpful. The rear bar is in the softest setting and is actually softer than stock in the position I have as per Steeda.

 

[sachmo133]

Is it just rear bar ? More rear bar will increase ovesteer so if you want less than softest, go back to stock, just you have to be looking at steady state cornering or corner entry/exit, not when getting on the throttle.

Definitely a big part of the problem.

 

[NightmareMoon]

Definitely a big part of the problem.

Is it just rear bar ? More rear bar will increase ovesteer so if you want less than softest, go back to stock, just you have to be looking at steady state cornering or corner entry/exit, not when getting on the throttle.

That's a good point, if the steady state cornering feels balanced but the corner exit is loose, well swaybars are still effecting things but I'd adjust elsewhere. Some tires put power down on corner exit better than others.. Some of it is driving style (are you unwinding the wheel as you're applying power?)

 

[TeeLew]

Make sure you're not over-charging corner entries. It's really easy to get in the situation of over-running the front tires on entry and inducing understeer related wheelspin problems.

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