fatter front ARB

[jamie16v]

does a fatter front ARB such as the 25mm make a lot of difference over the standard.. i have fitted a whiteline rear adjustable one and that helps compensate for the understeer and it now gives more oversteer nicely.
if i were to fit a bigger front arb would i be un-doing the work of the rear or would it still hold the road better?..
cheers, jamie.

[bobbarley]

The rear is the more important one, you need to make sure that if you fit a front one it isn't bigger than the rear really.

[Dave_IOW]

From experience Jamie, ive had a combination, however short they have been.

The rear anti roll bar, gives more oversteer to correct 'as standard' understeer as you know.

If you beef up the front, it improves the handling alot but reduces the oversteer effect sorta cancelling it out.

I had a 19mm TT front with 25mm eibach rear, oversteer on lift off as you probably have now.

I now have 25mm front eibach to match the rear and it feels very balanced when you push it to absolute limit, but you do get a very slight bit of understeer as front tends to cancel out the rear.

However you are pushing the car 5x harder round the corners now.

Its a bit hard to explain but the fat rear sorts out the understeer, then a fat front makes it feel a hell of a lot more solid but brings back a little of the understeer BUT only when your pushing it as hard as it goes, which is now alot further than it ever was?

Did that make sense?

[jamie16v]

i thought as much, i think my rear arb is 22mm so im probably better off sticking with what ive got.  i just put new droplinks on the front and it has improved a bit but im thinking of polybushing the old droplinks while theyre off.