Anti-roll bars.

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fast freddie

Original Poster:

28 posts

133 months

Tuesday 11th April 2017
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Has anyone got some SR4/SR1 front and rear medium and stiff anti-roll bars which I could borrow or purchase. At the moment my car has the soft ones and I would like to experiment with the handling because it is a bit knife-edge in the dry.
Many thanks,
FF.

Josh Smith

437 posts

236 months

Wednesday 12th April 2017
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I'm pretty sure I have a medium rear bar that is spare that you could buy. Send me a Pm

Josh

Gc285

1,216 posts

193 months

Wednesday 12th April 2017
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I have soft, med and hard, front and back for sr1.cant sell till the cars sold though. I can lend if local.

If its sr1, I found medium is all that's required, maybe a hard rear if your happy to be a little wayward at the back and want to solve medium speed understeer and disconnect rear if wet. that is pretty much what everybody does unless your Ollie in which case he does something very different that suited his driving style which looked like 4 wheel drifting.
Tyre pressures and geometry are key.
No knowledge of sr4 as they have move aero.
ps try Brian,
https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/81253/ra...
he has spares, runs sr1s and may have some sr1 rollbars.

fast freddie

Original Poster:

28 posts

133 months

Sunday 16th April 2017
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Thanks gentleman. With the handling characteristics you describe Andy, the issues I have with my care do sound like I need to change the anti-roll bars on my SR4. I have got a medium front on the way, I am emailing Josh now for a rear.
I think I am going to try a stiff rear as well because it sounds like it could be a lot of sideways fun!!!
Thanks gentleman.
FF.

Gc285

1,216 posts

193 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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fast freddie said:
Thanks gentleman. With the handling characteristics you describe Andy, the issues I have with my care do sound like I need to change the anti-roll bars on my SR4. I have got a medium front on the way, I am emailing Josh now for a rear.
I think I am going to try a stiff rear as well because it sounds like it could be a lot of sideways fun!!!
Thanks gentleman.
FF.
I found Radicals base Geometry set up was good and felt safe if not slightly suffering from understeer. I did put a hard on the back and that made the back more wayward in slow to medium corners which I found completely manageable if not more fun to drive once you get your head round it and become comfortable with it, that also reduced understeer which is something I always suffered from. It got me out of medium corners onto long straights and with more speed= faster lap time and inability for competitors to pass on of the straight. For trackdays you wont feel too much difference by changing nik links,
I found that full geometry set up and corner weights as important as changing settings.
Im no expert and others were faster than me and there are many more ways to skin a cat.

BertBert

19,038 posts

211 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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What actual issue do you have? When is it knife-edge? Where does it let go and how?
Bert