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Old 03-23-2007, 11:21 AM
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Default Want to reduce body roll...

If I go with the H&R sway bars on the AWE site, should I go with both front & rear? Any real negatives to daily driving from doing this?
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Just rear IMHO.
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Default i am curious too. how would the combination of

front and rear swaybars affect the overall driving. would the addition of front swaybars bring more understeer and offset to some degree the rear swaybar?
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If you add just the rear only, it will help to reduce understeer push.
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Default Rule of thumb: Adding stiffness to one axle increases the grip on the other axle.

If the rear is loose - add front stiffness via a bigger bar or stiffer springs. If the front pushes (the car understeers), which is how all S4s are stock, add rear stiffness with either a bar or stiffer springs.
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Hey, are you still in town? Your email has not worked for me lately.
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Default Just rear... but ultimately you will want to get some kind of suspension setup if you havent already

also check out H-Sport. They have a 22mm rear sway bar that is really nice and comes with much better subframe brackets (similar to the Neuspeed 19mm swaybar ones) than the H&R ones.

You dont want to crack your subframe!<ul><li><a href="http://www.h-sport.com/cgi-bin/EDCstore.pl">H-Sport</a></li></ul>
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