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Originally Posted by sybir
As much as this is fun to watch, it behooves me to point out that you're trying to argue suspension theory and chassis bracing with a guy who's day job is designing suspensions for race cars 
That said, a rear strut bar helped add a little torsional rigidity in the back of my wagon, as I can no longer hear the hatch twisting around during hard coornering like I could before....but that's a much bigger car with a much bigger hatch area than WRX wagon. I knew the QR's were a sacrifice, as you can't even tighten them effectively, let alone tension them with Whiteline's conventional threading.
And if you're saying the bar feels stiff, therefore it's helping, think about how stiff your suspension towers feel already......are you able to just swivel those around?
Strut bars are just a minor band-aid fix for larger dynamic issue that can only be effectively addressed with a welded-in, tensioned, triangulated brace. |
I know he's a suspension engineer. I just think that saying a STB with a hinge is useless is exagerating. I'm not arguing as much as trying to bate him into educating me.
And no, I'm not saying that the fact that it's stiff is helping. I'm saying that the fact that it keeps the strut towers at a static distance means force is shared between two strut towers instead of one.