ETR#2 - Romancing the cone!!

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JohnSmith
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Re: ETR#2 - Romancing the cone!!

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thrdeye wrote: QUESTION for the crew here: is sway bar rate the same as spring rate? I know there will be some differences in actual wheel rate since they are not located in the same place, but if you have a 100 lb spring and a 100lb swaybar rate do you end up with a 200 lb rate if everything else was equal?
Sway bars work on body roll and as spring couplers to the opposing side's suspension. Those numbers aren't the same as one of them is limited by your actual spring rate and the other is really just the sway bar's rate. An infinitely stiff sway bar will prevent any different in suspension deflection between the two sides of that end of the car but the wheel rate over bumps that one wheel hits will be whatever the two sides added together give you.
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