TeamRX8

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anybody who's building a sway bar from regular carbon steel should be shot, then quartered, and finally incinerated

ULLLOSE

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Anyone catch the Hotchkis swaybar stuff in the latest SportsCar.

edj

ulllose is just trolling for more atta-boys...

yep, i saw it. i can't afford more toys for the car.
so i guess i'll just stick with what i got.

ULLLOSE

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It is a nice bar, should fit the gap between OE and some of the stiffer stuff out there. Have one sitting in the garage, in case I ever want to test street tires again.

btw if you can the number in the story, special number for some sort of tracking, I think they will break a set up and sell the front bar only.

fossumja

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It that the same bar they normally advertise for the RX-8, or a modified miata bar?

SouthFL

I've been in contact with Hotchkis regarding the MX-5 front bar. In my case, I wish to pair it with a mildish rear bar for an overall mildish sway bar setup, hollow for lightness and with adjustability. Unfortunately, both of the Hotchkis rear bars (RX8 and MX-5) seem a little too stiff for the setup I'm looking for, so I would definately like to purchase the front MX-5 bar only.

fossumja

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I couldn't quite get the math to work on this one, although I was able to on the "RX-8" bar. Do you know if this bar has different geometry (arm length, etc.) or is it unusually thick walled?

Also, the article quoted the best setting for the street tires as 44% stiffer than your normal setup. Is that the stiffest setting compared to the redrilled stock or mazdaspeed bar?

TIA

TeamRX8

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On a tubular bar with flattened ends you can get close to determining the wall thickness by measuring the flattened end thickness

personally, I do not like the lbs/in measurment that were done on the test and used by Hotchkis, the proper method is lbs per x deg of twist, typically 5 degrees is used for speedway/torsion bars.

I'm talking with a manufacturer for an adjustable front bar design that I think many of you would be interested in, the price should be attractive too. The new speedway bar I built recently was to test out the stiffness range for Stock autocross use.

TeamRX8

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just following up, the swaybar deal fell through and I'm heading in a different direction now too

this forum member has a brand new Mazdaspeed RX-8 front sway bar for sale for a good price:

https://www.rx8club.com/members/erikv-40313/

ULLLOSE

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TeamRX8

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don't be an @ssh@t

the STU experience taught me a few things about the Heartland Park surface