Rear roll bar.. Yes or no?

[Jhonno]

Heard some rumblings of people removing these for handling/traction.. Anyone on here done it?

[Gazzab]

Undoing and zip tying the rear arb out the way was popular back in 99/00. Suspect this fashion is less popular now..?

[Toadusmodus]

Something to do with removing roll bar allows more roll (obviously) and therefore allowing more indication of onset of oversteer and in turn easier to catch. Maybe. But my memory is shocking at the best of times and had a few glasses of vino calapso so probably talking arse. Having tracked my Cerb WITH roll bar, found it surprisingly easy to control oversteer. Not sure about on a wet roundabout coming out of Tesco though......

[Tanguero]

I tried disconnecting it for sprinting a couple of years ago. I reconnected it after my first practice run - it completely ruined the handling without it.

[spitfire4v8]

I first started disconnecting rear ARBs after having a ride in a cerb with it done (by martin short of rollcentre) .. but it's only applicable if you're running a suspension kit with this in mind or require the extra grip out of laterally-loaded low gear corners. You can also modify the front ARB to make it stiffer. I had a small batch of uprated front ARBs made but they took ages to sell so wouldn't make any more.

[Alistair H.]

I am erring in the opposite direction.

I have run most of my Cerb years without the ARB connected. Only recently has it been reconnected. I would say the rear break away is less progressive with it connected. I plan to disconnect it again very soon to check.

[Jhonno]

Running Nitrons..

Guessing to make use of it, would need stiffer rear springs to compensate a little.

[Tanguero]

Alistair H. said:

I am erring in the opposite direction.

I have run most of my Cerb years without the ARB connected. Only recently has it been reconnected. I would say the rear break away is less progressive with it connected. I plan to disconnect it again very soon to check.

I found it made mine understeer and wallow horribly, no matter what I did with the shocks. Other people seem to swear by it though, so very much personal preference or down to the rest of the suspension setup, I guess.