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Subject:Re: 15" tire pressures?
From:Ed
Date:Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:20:53 -0400

A thicker rear stabilizer bar will cause more oversteer not understeer.  A
rear stabilizer bar will decrease the traction of the rear, relative to the
front, in a turn.

The reason many cars have only a front stabilizer bar is to insure a
predictable amount of understeer so the average driver will not get into
trouble.  Adding a rear bar increases the amount of oversteer so most
manufactures increase the size of the front bar when a rear bar is added.

Ed

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:02:31 -0700, Jake de Villiers
<crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Sure it is Scott - understeer is understeer, whether via a thicker rear bar,
>harder rear tires or dual rear wheels.
>
>All of those things make the rear resist directional change.
>
>Yuck
>

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