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?

 

Nice piece...

 

While it says "new" on the website I think it has been around for a year or more. I do not know anyone that has used one.

 

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...

 

if the Progress Tech bars weren't so low priced I'd have one on my STU car

 

Team, so you're running some of the Progress Technology stuff now? What do you think of them?

 

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

 

i cant wait to hear about the progress sways after you get some racing out of them.

 

I heard that the Agency Power sways are simply rebranded progress sways...they even look alike...

 

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

 

I always had it drilled into my head that the wide bar/straight arm configuration you observed, was actually *desirable* in a competition-oriented ARB. from the point of view that it provides the most efficient and predictable transfer of force/motion (angular moment), compared to a bent/offset arm.
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.

 

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.

 

you lost me.....LOL.....I really need pics to talk about this stuff! r u any good at MS Paint?
:-P

 

as of this sunday i'll have two autox's on the front and rear PT sways. i'll add feedback to teamrx8's thread afterwards.

 

i have some pics of the previous gen AP sways vs. the PT sways. i'll post them up in a new thread soon so everyone can see the difference.

 

true, they changed designs, by all appearances to the PT bars

 

Now that you mention it...I think it was in your "stiffy" thread...

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

 

there's a used one up for grabs in the FS forum

 

Cept its local pickup only in CA...blah...