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      12-21-2010, 11:24 PM   #13
tarheel91
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Drives: ESS Z4 3.0i
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Originally Posted by rclem05 View Post
Stiffer springs and matched dampers [typically lowered but not always] will reduce body roll at the cost of some ride comfort. Most of the quality coil-over setups will reduce sway and provide significantly better handling. Several vendors offer bigger anti-roll bars for reducing side-to-side sway.

Alignment and especially corner balancing will help reduce any pendular front-to-rear sway.

This car is not lotus-light but it it stiff and can be made to corner flat and fast.
Short of increasing the roll center height (which requires reworking the suspension geometry) and thus changing the ratio of geometric to elastic weight transfer, stiffer springs and matched dampers are the way to go.

One thing this will NOT do, though, is reduce weight transfer. It just makes it transfer faster.
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