Anti Rice

I have a 01 1.8TQ that had the OEM sport suspension added on later after the factoy. The F/R sway bars were not upgraded with the springs/shocks. Im getting a 19MM neuspeed rear sway bar, is there really any need to upgrade the front one also? Thanks

[ej257]

Not necessary at all.

Anti Rice

does the factory beef up the front ones on there factory sport package?

[ej257]

you should have a spring/shock combo that negates the use of sway bars altogether. Rather than sacrifice comfort with spring rates and aggressive shocks Audi put in sway bars.

It's completely unnecessary, look how your car handles now, do you want the front to plow/understeer more? Than get a stiffer front bar.

the dev

the factory non sport sways are 25mm or 27mm for the front, and 15mm for the rear. the sport package upgrades both to 29mm front, 17mm rear.

personally if i didn't have the sport package and wanted to upgrade the rear... i'd want to do the front as well. mike obviously feels differently. with the 29mm front and upgraded rear 19mm bar, the back end's pretty tightened up, and that setup does cut out quite a bit of the understeer.

The Burnt Audi

non sport is a hollow 29mm front bar...sport is a solid 29mm front bar

JAFO

i have a 35mm front bar and a 22mm rear. my car corners very flat! imo under steer is half that of the stock setup! i judge this by required steering input. this is with the rear bar on soft.<ul><li><a href="http://www.h-sport.com/">http://www.h-sport.com/</a</li></ul>

4Rings::G2 boosted::

You might want to if you set you rear on the stiff setting, otherwise you will get oversteer.