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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 09:39 AM
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how much of a difference will you feel after installing sway bars?

Did you notice a huge handling difference after installing sway bars? Will there be a slight difference or a huge one that will put a big a$$ smile on my face
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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 09:43 AM
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Makes the rear slide around alot more than stock...Which could certainly be fun, but only if you're paying attention. If not, it could make for a long day.
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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 10:34 AM
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Makes the rear slide around alot more than stock...Which could certainly be fun, but only if you're paying attention. If not, it could make for a long day.
slide around? Thants not good. I would hope it would make it handle much better on the streets or mountain twisty roads. Would I need coil overs for it to work or stock shocks would also make a difference?
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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 10:49 AM
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A definite improvment on track, but I do not see the point for the street? It does loosen up the rear some which improves the understeer condition, but again this should not be a facor on the street.
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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 11:38 AM
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I was referring to more understeer which can be somewhat dangerous on the street. I havent touched the roll bars on my evo so you should probably get an opinion from someone who has doneso on an EVO. When i installed a pair on my eclipse, it had a significant effect on going from a severely understeering car, to a much more neutral car. The evo is already pretty neutral so I would predict that it would cause more oversteer.
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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 12:06 PM
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The Hotchkis sways I had im my 350z were undrivable on the track. I changed the
front bar to stock and adjusted the rear sway to the softest setting - great handling.
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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 12:49 PM
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depends on the setting you put it on. I have one installed and you can feel the end come out a bit...nothing that would cause a concern. I have yet to really try to kick it out, but ive tried slightly and its not much different...yet. I have a hotchkis bar on the middle setting.

car feels more complete IMHO
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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 01:32 PM
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We installed the Hotchkis sways along with the KW stage 3 coilover system and
drove the car at it's limit (professional driver)
Bad understeer changing to hard oversteer. Dangerous. That was with the 350z of course.
Tried all settings and changed as mentioned above.

What I want to say is that there is no: just change your sways and the car will handle better.
It depends mainly on what other susp. mods you have and if you want to go fast or just
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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 06:21 PM
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on my friend's g35, (he got the whole cusco sway set) it improved his handling dramatically. He loves them.
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Old Nov 14, 2004 | 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Dom
We installed the Hotchkis sways along with the KW stage 3 coilover system and
drove the car at it's limit (professional driver)
Bad understeer changing to hard oversteer. Dangerous. That was with the 350z of course.
Tried all settings and changed as mentioned above.

What I want to say is that there is no: just change your sways and the car will handle better.
It depends mainly on what other susp. mods you have and if you want to go fast or just
show

And I am sure this has nothing to do with the Z being AWD like the EVO, right?
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