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Old 08-13-2006, 09:19 PM   #12
Raven18940
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Originally Posted by Wiisass
A quick note on the thickness of a sway bar. I personally hate how companies describe their sway bars. The OD of the bar tells you nothing. You would need to know the ID to even get close to having an idea of what the bar does. In order to accurately size a good sway bar from your car you would need to know the OD and ID as well as the length of the sway bar in torsion, the length of the moment arm and the installation ratio of the bar.
This is very interesting to me, cause I'm looking at 22mm rear bar for my car which sounds like a big step from the 17mm that's there, but according to you it might not be so huge. I'm thinking that bar and a 21 mm (factory upgrade to a later spec for my car, I have a 20mm) up front with poly bushings.
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