anybody who's building a sway bar from regular carbon steel should be shot, then quartered, and finally incinerated

 

Anyone catch the Hotchkis swaybar stuff in the latest SportsCar.

 

ulllose is just trolling for more atta-boys...

yep, i saw it. i can't afford more toys for the car.
so i guess i'll just stick with what i got.

 

It is a nice bar, should fit the gap between OE and some of the stiffer stuff out there. Have one sitting in the garage, in case I ever want to test street tires again.

btw if you can the number in the story, special number for some sort of tracking, I think they will break a set up and sell the front bar only.

 

It that the same bar they normally advertise for the RX-8, or a modified miata bar?

 

I've been in contact with Hotchkis regarding the MX-5 front bar. In my case, I wish to pair it with a mildish rear bar for an overall mildish sway bar setup, hollow for lightness and with adjustability. Unfortunately, both of the Hotchkis rear bars (RX8 and MX-5) seem a little too stiff for the setup I'm looking for, so I would definately like to purchase the front MX-5 bar only.

 

I couldn't quite get the math to work on this one, although I was able to on the "RX-8" bar. Do you know if this bar has different geometry (arm length, etc.) or is it unusually thick walled?

Also, the article quoted the best setting for the street tires as 44% stiffer than your normal setup. Is that the stiffest setting compared to the redrilled stock or mazdaspeed bar?

TIA

 

On a tubular bar with flattened ends you can get close to determining the wall thickness by measuring the flattened end thickness

personally, I do not like the lbs/in measurment that were done on the test and used by Hotchkis, the proper method is lbs per x deg of twist, typically 5 degrees is used for speedway/torsion bars.

I'm talking with a manufacturer for an adjustable front bar design that I think many of you would be interested in, the price should be attractive too. The new speedway bar I built recently was to test out the stiffness range for Stock autocross use.

 

just following up, the swaybar deal fell through and I'm heading in a different direction now too

this forum member has a brand new Mazdaspeed RX-8 front sway bar for sale for a good price:

https://www.rx8club.com/members/erikv-40313/

 

TeamRX8- http://tinyurl.com/2925rm

 

don't be an @ssh@t

the STU experience taught me a few things about the Heartland Park surface