difference between gt and st sway bars..., need to know... Options

[trdevelopment]

hey guys i need to know what the difference is diameter wise between the st and the gt sway bars and if you can put the gt sway bars on the st.the reason being is if there a lot thicker i might just go get some gt sway bars from the boneyard by my house.

This post has been edited by trdevelopment: Feb 19, 2005 - 3:09 AM

[ghostdog]

taken from >>> http://www.grmotorsports.com/celicast.html


"We replaced the 19mm front anti-rollbar with a 20mm one from the heavier1994 Celica GT. When the 94-99 GTs were being campaigned in what was then E Stock, the trick was to put the smaller ST bar on, to limit inside wheelspin. The bar that we used actually came from Per's old 94 GT that he ran in E Stock in 1999.

If the thinking back then was to put a smaller bar on to limit wheelspin, why put a larger front bar on our stock class autocrosser? Doesn't that larger bar make understeer worse? Inside wheelspin? Not really, as the bar will limit body roll, which in turn will keep your contact patch more consistent, the end result is increased traction at both ends of the car. The ST doesn't really have enough power to make wheelspin an issue either.

Does it work? We didn't have time to do any back to back testing on this modification, but we found out at a local autocross this weekend that the car still feels amazingly responsive in low speed corners. There certainly wasn't any increase in understeer. The car also felt more stable through some faster offsets. This will probably be where we see the most improvement with the new bar."

[trdevelopment]

thanx ghost dog good find... im thinking about upgrading even if it is a minimal difference.