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Old Mar 16, 2004 | 09:27 PM
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Strut bars and Sway bars, whats the diffrence? Adding these componets will result in slight oversteer or understeer right? Can someone explain under, and oversteer for me? Thanks
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Old Mar 16, 2004 | 09:52 PM
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Default Re: Strut bars or sway bars? (AccordCD5)

please search and here is all your handling issues:
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=796414
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Old Mar 16, 2004 | 10:00 PM
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I like your bling vrdrvr yea search its your answer to all questions
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Old Mar 16, 2004 | 10:42 PM
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quick break down:
sway bar reduces swaying of the body..this combined with the correct spring rates is what affects over/under steer the most

struts will stiffen out the chassis but do play a ssmalll affect on the over/under steer business

you don't want to add one suspension component and think it will act alone..all of them work together and if one is off then your handling can be off as well
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Old Mar 16, 2004 | 11:16 PM
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my fellow asian brother..

you just can't feel the difference with strut bar unless you're pulling some serious G's on the track.

Get a good set of sway bar and you'll be happy.

strut bar are pretty cheap to begin with, i would just go for those ebay stuffs.

for sway bar, get ST's

rear bar with oem front=more oversteer(perfect for fwd)
you could play around with tire size to get some more oversteer/understeer also.
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Old Mar 17, 2004 | 07:24 PM
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Hey, Thanks for all the info guys. I allready have the Suspension Tech. sway bars on my wish list
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