The Camber Compensator

For road racing, autocrossing, or just taking that curve in style. Oh yea, and stopping!
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fusername
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Re: The Camber Compensator

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Just made a truly sad discovery today! the z-bar bolts to the body, no way I can put it on my fiberglass buggy! I was in love with that design too. and strange bulges under my body make it very likly that even if I made mounts I would have clearence issues.

due to the massive weight bias in a fiberglass buggy, the biggest things I am fighting is jacking and understeer, so a HD front sway bar and a camber compensator that is NOT anchored in the middle would be the best thing for a street toy the way I see it. obviously a shimmed Z bar would be better, but no such luck.
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JWP
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Re: The Camber Compensator

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I've been debating and reading through things here on this thread and the others related to suspension.
Are there pitfalls to running both a shimmed factory z bar and a compensator such as the Empi (strap style) or the Sway Away Style?

Is there a such a thing as store bought Z bar that is more capable? I say store bought but can one buy the parts for a reasonable price and swap out the bars like you can with a splined sway bars. I do realize what I've described is basically a splined sway bar with opposing arms, but what size bar would you get? Hollow or solid? What length arms, of course adjustable arms would let you vary the rate.
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Re: The Camber Compensator

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Not sure if this link has been posted yet. I found it helpful.

http://www.eviltwinmotorsports.com/wp/w ... 2011.9.pdf
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petew
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Re: The Camber Compensator

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BTW, I did this with my empi CC...

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bumpstop + U-bolt = works like a charm :wink:
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