Guillermo has let me co-drive his Insight for a few events now, and I have to say that the sway bar is HANDS DOWN the best thing that could have happened to the car.
It's absolutely beautiful to drive: the slightest throttle adjustment controls cornering. The rotation is a dream!
I drove my own car today at at the HADA event/Insight meet, and I spent my first 3 runs cursing my lack o' sway bar. I compensated by dropping the tire pressures in the rear a little more (32 psi) and tossed the Insight around a lot. Ended up with some rotation, but it's just not the same.
Dougie: usually we do run auto-x events with the rear wheel skirts, it's just that Guillermo has one crazy set of tires, originally intended for solo1 events, that are too wide to accomodate them.
You can reduce understeer with weight transfer, by getting on the brakes hard, getting back off the brakes, then cornering (thus throwing the weight of the car onto the front tires, giving them more grip), but the sway bar is definitely a better solution.
It's absolutely beautiful to drive: the slightest throttle adjustment controls cornering. The rotation is a dream!
I drove my own car today at at the HADA event/Insight meet, and I spent my first 3 runs cursing my lack o' sway bar. I compensated by dropping the tire pressures in the rear a little more (32 psi) and tossed the Insight around a lot. Ended up with some rotation, but it's just not the same.
Dougie: usually we do run auto-x events with the rear wheel skirts, it's just that Guillermo has one crazy set of tires, originally intended for solo1 events, that are too wide to accomodate them.
You can reduce understeer with weight transfer, by getting on the brakes hard, getting back off the brakes, then cornering (thus throwing the weight of the car onto the front tires, giving them more grip), but the sway bar is definitely a better solution.
