Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Struth wrote:
What worries me though is that your bush has rotated the wrong way, probably because it's lifted by the RA though.

By the way, I hadn't looked at your build before, very nice job

Jack is under the RA pushing it outwards in that pic.

OIIIO wrote:After seeing the flex pics in your build thread, you've got no issues on flex!

I definately think some tuned sway bars would help.

With the narrow location of the rear coils, the stability would be awful without a sway bar..
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Thanks mate. But you'll note that in most pics it's still the rear that does all the work, and you're right, once the car gets on some funky angles it is a little disconcerting.

MICKA - I get the impression though that it's nothing to do with the RA front end. I've had the tyres off and springs out and while nothing like a multi link front it provides more than enough movement. The issue seems to be the relationship between the spring locations and their spring rate. As noted, i cant really go softer front since that is where the weight is and i need to control that, and i can't go harder rear otherwise on a level surface on the road they would may as well be lumps of timber. I ramped it up frontwards at suspension stuff's ramp with a front bolt out of the RA and it still refused to move a great deal.

curiously, when it gets ramped backwards, after the rear runs out of travel the front starts moving nicely and tucks/droops, so that reinforces my thought that i need to control the rear better to try and transfer some of those twisting forces to the front before the rear maxes out.

This may provide some insperation

http://www.2dextremefabrications.com.au ... type=large

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthre ... =sway+bars

cheers mate

I'm actually talking to dale to buy one of his torsion bars if i can't find a suitable donor

that pirate one looks pretty trick as well, but i don't know about the unsplined ends. From what i've spoken to engineers about the subject, my original idea to grind the ends into a square is a bit bootyfab as splines are supposed to be way stronger.

rockcrawler31 wrote:

TWISTY wrote:DGR runs (or did run) a torsion bar style one on their lux. I spoke to Greg about it when I did the last susp changes on my 40 which gave it a lot more body roll.......I've only got as far as getting some torsion bars for it, haven't looked into setting them up on it at all yet.

Heres a link to a thread on pirate about home made antirock style ones, which has some formulas there too.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=761500

awesomeness mate, thanks.

did DGR say how effective it was in helping?

You still need to get back to me about that carton i was going to get fer ol mate

Ahh, forgot about that, should be heading down sometime soon, so will let you know.

And cant exactly remember what Greg said about its performance, sounded like it was worth trying but.