Swaybar setup
(for bars with multi-hole adjustment)
It is recommended that you become
familiar with the
characteristics of your new swaybars before "pushing it" in higher
speed maneuvers. Without becoming adjusted to your car's new
handling, you may lose control of your vehicle.
After the front and rear Sway
Barbarians have been installed,
it is recommended that the front be set to FULL STIFF (which is the innermost of the holes)
and the rear to FULL SOFT (outermost holes, closest
to the ends). This setup will give your car a reasonable
understeer baseline. From there, you can tune the
bars to your driving style.
For
advanced users, note that you can set the front and rear
bar in "middle" positions. For example, the rear E36 M3 Sway
Barbarian has two adjustment holes. Conventional thinking would
assume that you have two positions, stiffer (holes furthest away from
the ends of the bar) or softer (holes on the ends of the bar).
For increased fine tuning, you can set one side to soft and the other
side to stiff. The vehicle does not know the different from
side-to-side when it comes to bar stiffness, so in effect, you have a
"middle" position.
You can fine tune the handling of
your car with other
parameters as well. See below for a reference chart as a guide.
PARAMETER |
TO INCREASE
UNDERSTEER |
TO INCREASE
OVERSTEER |
Front Tire
Pressure |
Lower |
Higher |
Rear Tire
Pressure |
Higher |
Lower |
Front Tire Width |
Smaller |
Larger |
Rear Tire Width |
Larger |
Smaller |
Front Camber |
More Positive |
More Negative |
Rear Camber |
More Negative |
More Positive |
Front Springs |
Stiffer |
Softer |
Rear Springs |
Softer |
Stiffer |
Front Sway Bar |
Stiffer |
Softer |
Rear Sway Bar |
Softer |
Stiffer |
|