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[Garry]

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Front Sway Bar Kit

Is your Wraith™ set-up for high speed rock racing, or RECON G6 Challenge style events? Then this is the option part you have been waiting for: the Axial Wraith™ Front Sway Bar Kit. Designed for high speed this system will let you soften up your suspension for jumps, while keeping torque twist and body lean to a minimum during acceleration. A sway bar's main function is to control body roll, yet still allow your shocks to move vertically with the changing terrain. What does all this mean? It means more stability at high speed. A must have upgrade for any would be rock racer.

• CNC machined for precision.
• Black anodized aluminum sway bar arms.
• Each kit includes three different steel sway bars for fine tuning body roll and suspension articulation (soft, medium and firm).
• Laser etched Axial logos.
• All required hardware is included.
• Simple bolt on application.
• Kits available for front and rear separately.


AX30781 Sway Bar Kit Front (Soft, Medium, Firm) $45.00









Rear Sway Bar Kit

Is your Wraith™ set-up for high speed rock racing, or RECON G6 Challenge style events? Then this is the option part you have been waiting for: the Axial Wraith™ Rear Sway Bar Kit. Designed for high speed this system will let you soften up your suspension for jumps, while keeping torque twist and body lean to a minimum during acceleration. A sway bar's main function is to control body roll, yet still allow your shocks to move vertically with the changing terrain. What does all this mean? It means more stability at high speed. A must have upgrade for any would be rock racer.

• CNC machined for precision.
• Black anodized aluminum sway bar arms.
• Each kit includes three different steel sway bars for fine tuning body roll and suspension articulation (soft, medium and firm).
• Laser etched Axial logos.
• All required hardware is included.
• Simple bolt on application.
• Kits available for front and rear separately.

AX30782 Sway Bar Kit Rear (Soft, Medium, Firm) $45.00

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[cbr6fs]

Anti-roll bars on solid link suspension

[Garry]

Yes, to stop chassis roll. Perfectly normal.

[domcharlton]

Be interesting too se if these work, To me they will do bugger all, Stop a bit of chassis roll but i doubt much think it will make it worse if anything!
The more i see these wraiths the less I want one. lol (Ill stop trolling now)

[lorrylemming]

One end of the bar is attached to link that attaches to the axle, but what is the other end attached to?

[Garry]

A central tube which twists. The thicker the tube, the more resistive to twisting and it'll have the effect of a stiffer anti-roll bar.

[cbr6fs]

Garry, on 28 January 2012 - 03:53 PM, said:

Yes, to stop chassis roll. Perfectly normal.

Waste of time and money on a solid link chassis, stiffer spring will do exactly the same job and be cheaper and easier to fit.

[Garry]

But a stiffer spring compromises the ability to go over rough ground and soak up the undulations....you know...the reason why anti-roll bars were invented...

[cbr6fs]

Garry, on 31 January 2012 - 01:41 PM, said:

But a stiffer spring compromises the ability to go over rough ground and soak up the undulations....you know...the reason why anti-roll bars were invented...

Anti-rolls bars are meant to transfer the unused spring tension from the inside wheel (when cornering obviously) to the outside wheel.
This effectively increases the roll stiffness.

Problem here though is, it increases the roll stiffness when both cornering and AND during suspension travel.
This is bad off-road as it causes the car/truck to waddle as one truck wheel hits a bump and transfers that energy to the opposite wheel.
This waddle is even more pronounced on a fixed axle set-up as the transferred energy has nowhere to go except to the other wheels.

On an independent suspension set-up this is often an effective compromise for some situations, but even on a independent suspension set-up it's only really effective on-road.

On a fixed axle off-road set-up there is absolutely no gain to be had by fitting ARB's.
In fact it will compromise the off-road handling far far more than it will improve the on-road handling, to the point where the only off-road cars i know running ARB's are rally cars and even then they run very very very soft ARB's off-road to give a little high speed stability, even that is at the expense of slower speed grip though.


So on a fixed axle off-road car ARB's are an absolute waste of time money and effort.