View Poll Results: What is your sway setting?
Softest
1
4.35%
Medium
12
52.17%
Stiffest
10
43.48%
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Hotchkis Sway settings
04-22-2009, 02:32 PM
#16
What do you mean by lower and aggressive? When I drive it now, I feel that it could be a bit more stiffer.
04-22-2009, 02:37 PM
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Well,
Like the Eibachs' are just springs..which serves the purpose of lowering the car and providing a more "firm" suspension. They aren't coilovers so your not getting much performance out of the Eibachs.
When you add the hotchkis sway bars, you will be stiffening the suspension via sways. If you have a non-S and you go to hotchkis, you will be stiffening it by 175%, which is quite substantial. Also bear in mind that these adjustments are not permanent, meaning you can always go softer or stiffer in the future.
If you feel thats not enough, you can always go to the stiffest setting (250%) or the softest, 120%, which should still be noticeable.
Like the Eibachs' are just springs..which serves the purpose of lowering the car and providing a more "firm" suspension. They aren't coilovers so your not getting much performance out of the Eibachs.
When you add the hotchkis sway bars, you will be stiffening the suspension via sways. If you have a non-S and you go to hotchkis, you will be stiffening it by 175%, which is quite substantial. Also bear in mind that these adjustments are not permanent, meaning you can always go softer or stiffer in the future.
If you feel thats not enough, you can always go to the stiffest setting (250%) or the softest, 120%, which should still be noticeable.
04-22-2009, 02:44 PM
#18
Well,
Like the Eibachs' are just springs..which serves the purpose of lowering the car and providing a more "firm" suspension. They aren't coilovers so your not getting much performance out of the Eibachs.
When you add the hotchkis sway bars, you will be stiffening the suspension via sways. If you have a non-S and you go to hotchkis, you will be stiffening it by 175%, which is quite substantial. Also bear in mind that these adjustments are not permanent, meaning you can always go softer or stiffer in the future.
If you feel thats not enough, you can always go to the stiffest setting (250%) or the softest, 120%, which should still be noticeable.
Like the Eibachs' are just springs..which serves the purpose of lowering the car and providing a more "firm" suspension. They aren't coilovers so your not getting much performance out of the Eibachs.
When you add the hotchkis sway bars, you will be stiffening the suspension via sways. If you have a non-S and you go to hotchkis, you will be stiffening it by 175%, which is quite substantial. Also bear in mind that these adjustments are not permanent, meaning you can always go softer or stiffer in the future.
If you feel thats not enough, you can always go to the stiffest setting (250%) or the softest, 120%, which should still be noticeable.
I have a sport and I do feel a slight difference since getting the sways, but I thought it would be more of a difference. So Im thinking I need to be stiffer.
04-22-2009, 03:01 PM
#20
04-22-2009, 03:07 PM
#21
What i dont get is how the rears can only be 65% stiffer while the fronts make it 205% stiffer, this being on a sport. The numbers just dont seem right, thats a huge difference between the two. The stillen sways claim about the same in rear (70%) but only like 40% in the front.
04-22-2009, 03:51 PM
#25
I am on Stillen sways and can comment to stiffnesses:
I'll caveat this with the fact that I'm on coilovers, so not true apples-to-apples.
The fronts of the Stillens compared to the stock SPORT bar is 28.6% stiffer. I feel that this could be much much stiffer, maybe not 205% like the Hotchkis, but somewhere between 100 to 150% stiffer would be much better.
The rear bar is 70.4% stiffer than oem SPORT bar at the stiffest setting, and I'll say that it is just a tad too much, making the car oversteer far too quickly and often. I've tried them on the softest setting, which is 37% stiffer than the oem SPORT bar, and that is just not quite enough, with the rear end being a little more squirly than I'd like.
If you're wondering about what to use for the rear, skip soft and medium right up and try for hard. It'll probably be perfect.
I'll caveat this with the fact that I'm on coilovers, so not true apples-to-apples.
The fronts of the Stillens compared to the stock SPORT bar is 28.6% stiffer. I feel that this could be much much stiffer, maybe not 205% like the Hotchkis, but somewhere between 100 to 150% stiffer would be much better.
The rear bar is 70.4% stiffer than oem SPORT bar at the stiffest setting, and I'll say that it is just a tad too much, making the car oversteer far too quickly and often. I've tried them on the softest setting, which is 37% stiffer than the oem SPORT bar, and that is just not quite enough, with the rear end being a little more squirly than I'd like.
If you're wondering about what to use for the rear, skip soft and medium right up and try for hard. It'll probably be perfect.
04-24-2009, 09:03 PM
#30
I like to hear more from those who have the stiffest setting on Hotchkis sways. How do you like it? If you had it on medium setting and then switched, what do you think of the difference? Is there a lot of oversteer? How is the handling on the twisties?