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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warhorse Racing" data-source="post: 1505862" data-attributes="member: 23098">I'm a big proponent of experimenting and testing, so it's worth seeing how your car feels with the larger front sway bar. If you have access to a larger rear sway bar to test, I would try that too (without the larger front bar). When I help people set up their suspension, I always make sure they (safely) test different mods to feel firsthand how they impact the handling of their car. Testing at an event will be ideal.Moving the limit of traction is a tricky thing. This example doesn't exactly pertain to your situation, but it's one I use to illustrate my point. A Mustang that is super-low, with stiffer springs, stiff shocks & struts and huge sway bars will "feel" great under normal driving conditions (on smooth roads). But the limit of traction of that car will be really far IN. If you push that car on an autocross course, it will have a tendency to understeer and oversteer (a lot). My autocross cars don't feel as "present" when driving normally on the street. But they feel incredibly responsive out on course. If I adjusted them to feel better on the street, there would be less "attack" in the cars on course and less composure at the limit. It's also worth considering the diversity of your courses when dialing in your car. If the larger front sway bar requires you to run the front struts at full-soft, there's no room to adjust (up front) for understeer on those tight, sweeper-heavy courses you run on. Looking at your videos, I would run a "short course" setting (softer up front) on the oval courses, and my regular setting at the Air Force base. You always want to have room to adjust to the course. Dialing in the car can be frustrating, but it's my favorite part of building an autocross car. I'm looking forward to seeing the videos from your next event and hearing how the car responds to your adjustments!</blockquote>