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Originally Posted by kitw
I can confirm... the Dinan front bar is solid (or significantly thicker wall) as well. It's really friggin heavy compared to stock and much beefier than the E93 bar.
But... the car already understeers, I'm not sure why you want to increase that.
If you aren't feeling it, you aren't pushing the car...
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Why are you under the impression that a stiffer sway bar increases understeer? The stiffer bar reduces body roll. The reduction in body roll reduces weight transfer to the outside wheels during a turn, which in turn tends to equalizes the traction between all tires. This results in
less understeer.
If we were to follow the line of logic that a stiffer bar increases understeer, then the logical conclusion would be to simply remove the sway bars to eliminate understeer. I think you imagine what would happen in that case. As you made a turn the body of the car would roll over as it wanted to continue in a straight line (an object in motion will tend to stay in motion, in a straight line, until acted on by an outside force- Isaac Newton) leading to obscene understeer.