Re: Anti-sway bars? Two thumbs-up!

["Gregory M. Merritt" <gregm@engin.umich.edu>]

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Toby Erkson wrote:
> I have anti-sway bars on my babe and I love it.  Corner handling is greatly 

	I love 'em too... but these days I don't do the spirited driving
that I used to do.  The squareback sees *serious* daily "family truckster"
duty, and the harsher ride isn't worth it.  The change *is* dramatic in
the corners, though.  If you go nuts with 'em, you'll see the oil light
come on in long, sweeping corners; time to start thinking "windage tray." 
Isn't it funny how mucking with one system of the car affects everything
else? 

> The nice thing about anti-sway bars is that they won't affect your 
> day-to-day driving like hitting a pothole or going over a bump.  Your 

	Not exactly.  Equal-magnitude bumps encoutered simultaneously by
both wheels don't allow the anti-sway bars to come into play.  However, a
bump or pothole that hits just one wheel *will* feel lots different. You
can see that this is the case if you look at how the bars are attached
(stock & aftermarket).  They affect differential motion between left & 
right vertical suspension travel.

	On another note...

	my Type-III specific bar for the front, ordered from the Empi
catalog about 6 years ago, didn't require any drilling; it mounts just
like a stock Beetle anti-sway bar by clamping to the lower trailing arms. 

-Greg
'71 squareback
'63 Beetle