Small Fortune Racing Sway Bar
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Small Fortune Racing Sway Bar
I was looking at sway bars for my friend's S2000, and Small Fortune Racing makes one of the more popular bars for their cars. so i was on their site and happened upon this:
http://www.smallfortuneracing.com/Pr...24/page24.html
if you look about half way down that page, you'll find that they make a bar for us as well! has anyone tried this?
http://www.smallfortuneracing.com/Pr...24/page24.html
if you look about half way down that page, you'll find that they make a bar for us as well! has anyone tried this?
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Originally Posted by scsi
I was looking at sway bars for my friend's S2000, and Small Fortune Racing makes one of the more popular bars for their cars. so i was on their site and happened upon this:
http://www.smallfortuneracing.com/Pr...24/page24.html
if you look about half way down that page, you'll find that they make a bar for us as well! has anyone tried this?
http://www.smallfortuneracing.com/Pr...24/page24.html
if you look about half way down that page, you'll find that they make a bar for us as well! has anyone tried this?
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I just saw that the other day as well. Truth in advertising for sure, the thing costs a small fortune. I have other things to worry about besides my front swaybar primarily involving my lack of driving talent, but I did find it intriguing. I would be interested if anyone has ever tried one.
Great information TeamRX8. Still will cost a small fortune...
Great information TeamRX8. Still will cost a small fortune...
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yes, I have them, you must have missed this thread
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-wheels-tires-brakes-suspension-55/sway-bars-109096/
I've only driven them on the street so far. Was suppose to race the car for the first time this year this weekend (National event), but that's cancelled now due to my job. Outside poossibility to run the car at a local event on Sunday
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-wheels-tires-brakes-suspension-55/sway-bars-109096/
I've only driven them on the street so far. Was suppose to race the car for the first time this year this weekend (National event), but that's cancelled now due to my job. Outside poossibility to run the car at a local event on Sunday
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Originally Posted by TeamRX8
I don't like it because they run the bar straight out and use a straight arm, rather than keeping the bar short and having bent arms. I don't see how the wheel doesn't hit it at full lock, but they do keep it too far inside maybe to avoid this, see how the endlinks angle in which is not ideal at all.
as you noted , OTOH, implementation depends on how well it can be physically packaged into the space, and whether the endlinks can be oriented in a complementary manner.
I recall at FSAE nationals, Carroll Smith came over and crumudgeoningly critiqued our car because we had resorted to a bent arm design. we were just copy-catting what the ARB on our street cars looked like :-/
we never ended up making a 90-deg arm version of the ARB to test on the same chassis, so I'll never know how much it would have helped.
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that's true if you can get the end link vertical, in this case it's not so you're putting quite a horizontal bending force on that long, straight arm as well as heavily loading the endlinks
so, does the arm move the bar or does it just push sideways? Probably some of both. The bent arm has to be concerned with tosion about the bend. IMO, this arm wiuld be more resistive to torsionally bending a bent arm than it would be to horizontally bending the straight arm. The arm is thicker vertically than it is horizontally.
so, does the arm move the bar or does it just push sideways? Probably some of both. The bent arm has to be concerned with tosion about the bend. IMO, this arm wiuld be more resistive to torsionally bending a bent arm than it would be to horizontally bending the straight arm. The arm is thicker vertically than it is horizontally.
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Originally Posted by scsi
i cant wait to hear about the progress sways after you get some racing out of them.
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Originally Posted by TeamRX8
you heard it from me ... but someone else pointed out that their site says the front bar is solid, I think it's a typo
not to mention that their price is higher
not to mention that their price is higher
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Originally Posted by TeamRX8
you heard it from me ... but someone else pointed out that their site says the front bar is solid, I think it's a typo
not to mention that their price is higher
not to mention that their price is higher
The markup is pretty high too...
Now only if I could find who they are sourcing thier exhaust from so I could also buy that at a fraction of the price...haa
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