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Originally Posted by 130R
Thanks.
I can see how they can lock the lever in several positions, but what is on the other end? That is, what is actually changing the roll rate of the ARB?
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It's a blade-type sway bar. There's a flat piece of spring steel that mates the hollow tube to the link. Moving the adjuster rotates the blade so it is more or less flexible. Imagine a ruler. If you hold it on either end (the 0" and 12" marks) it will only bend in one direction. If you try to bend it on a 45 degree rotated angle, it will be roughly a mid point. That's the same principal for the bar ends. I feel like I didn't describe that right, but that's the best I can do!
As far as the dampers/brakes are concerned: The Z/28 is well outside the rules for this series in stock trim. That's not to say it shouldn't race, but GM turned that program up to 11 when they mounted carbon brakes. We are the only race car in the series with a production twin that has such a thing, as far as I know. If we want to race against a diverse field, we have to play nice with the rule makers. No carbon brakes for us. The dampers are Penske. Last year the series had to run AST, Koni before that. They are both great development shocks, but for a top-of-the-line team, Penske is the way to go.
Thanks for the kind words to the team, from everybody! Robin and Andrew knocked it out of the park this race. The uneventful races seem to suit us well-- drama causes us to slip down the charts. Hopefully we'll have a good showing in Road America. We've had success there before. After all, it was the first place a Camaro GS car won in this series!