i found a guy that does custom sway bars....

[mazdamp3_18]

he seems like he has a very good company.. and he is big in the racing world.... he will make me custom sway bars to my specs for a great price...
i think im going to get 27mm front and 25-26mm rear...after i get my mazdaspeed coilovers...i want my car doing 1g or more on the skid pad

 

[big_ben]

Read this month's Road and Track. The MP3 will do 1.13g in the corner, but only .9something g's on the skidpad. I'm not sure why.

 

[javy212]

can someone explain the exact difference between doing 1.13g in a corner and .9 on a skidpad? I was confused when I saw it in R&T.....

 

[big_ben]

I don't know what the hell a skidpad is but here is my best guess. I think a skidpad is just an area where you drive in circles and try to go faster and faster until it loses traction. In a corner, you are coming in strait, then you turn hard and that is going to make the car lean just a bit and put more down force ont the tires. Don't qoute me though, that's just a guess.

 

[mazdamp3_18]

a skid pad is usually a 300ft diameter circle and they drive around it as fast as they can... they take the lap time to get around the circle and there is an equation but i cant think of it off the top of my head...

 

[melicha8]

Lateral Acceleration=1.22 x (Circle Radius/ (Lap Time)^2)
answer will be in G's
SCC June 02 how convenient

 

[70]

he seems like he has a very good company.. and he is big in the racing world.... he will make me custom sway bars to my specs for a great price...
i think im going to get 27mm front and 25-26mm rear...after i get my mazdaspeed coilovers...i want my car doing 1g or more on the skid pad

Why do you think you need sway bars that big??

And remember, the front sway bar is a bastard to get out.

 

[JcsMP3]

Bigger is not always better... you may actually make the handling worst. Right now when you turn hard the weight sits over your tires... which provides amazing handling... if you screw around with that.. then you have less weight on the proper side of the car... which in turn will make you spin out or even not turn as quickly anymore....

Getting wider tires wider rims... will help you for traction in a turn... i just don't see how a bigger sway bar can have any advantages....

You can add an extremely high spring rate springs on our cars... and that will not help in the handling... I mean you can easily over do something... when it comes to handling... I would simply put lowering springs to lower the centre of gravity, put wider rims and tires... and that's about it... a bigger sway bar... i just don't see it happening...

Jc

 

[Kooldino]

If the skid pad works out like ben says, then we probably get better G's in a turn rather than the skidpad BC of the inner tire spinning...so a LSD may boost our G's up...sound legit?