dropped spindles?

autoxcuda said
The elastic region is those whole spring movement just about until it breaks. Just before it breaks, the spring will not go back to it normal position it will be permenently deformed and changed. Depending on the kind of steel and treatments.

The elastic region for our T-bar would go way beyond where the bump stops on our cars are. So it all falls in the elastic region of that metal.

I added rear bar with a stock front bar. Good for autocross and gets the car to rotate. Fine on the street.

Now just before I went out to willow springs race track this May I added a front 1 1/8 sway bar. The professional instructor, Bob Reed with the badass handling red 68 Cuda that's been in Car Craft, drove my car and said he thought it still had too much rear bar and he'd not run the rear bar. That's on my specific car. But he did say with his personal driving style he didn't like much rear bar/roll couple.

I think it's safe to say I made a good choice adding the front 1 1/8 sway bar before I went out on the road course.

But again, I've added front QA1 shocks. I'm playing with those now. That might change things.

I think in an autocross, slower speed, tighter course situation more rear roll couple is needed than a road course.

You mean that on the tighter autoX you don't want to tail out as much? ... I can understand that. I'd say that with that stock front bar and the addition of the rear bar you must have been near tail happy - makes sense that you'd need a bigger front bar in that case. I've found one downside to the heavier front bar "on the street" (read: potholes and pavement cracks) is that, since the front wheels are "tied" together more, the car seems to get dragged around more than before - if one wheel moves alot the other side is more likely to follow in that direction ... similar to what happens when the rear steps out over bumps, but obviously not as badly.

I've toyed with the idea of going back to a stock front bar, no rear bar and heavy torsion bars instead, but I probably won't actually go and do it, if only because my settup is pretty nice for what I use it for and time is a bit tight.

Nice chatting with you though,