I've gotta vote "no" against the rear sway bar, if my car handling is typical. While returning from a party on Christmas eve, I had a deer jump out in front of me, instigating my first panic-stop in the Delorean. I was on a slight curve, however, and experienced 180 degrees of oversteer! I did avoid the deer, however. (Reindeer?...) The funny thing about the evening is that the party host, who was a friend-of-a-friend that I'd just met, was a Delorean owner! I castigated him for not driving the car, since he left it with his parents who start it for him regularly. But he bought the car in the mid-80's and took it cross-country a couple of times over the years, so I cut him some slack. :-) Gus Schlachter Austin, TX VIN# 4695 > -----Original Message----- > From: William T Wilson [mailto:fluffy@xxxx] > Sent: Sunday, December 26, 1999 6:08 PM > Subject: [DML] Re: The Resurrection of Vixen (#5927) continues... > > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Dave Stragand wrote: > > > 1) How does a rear sway bar affect handling? Anyone have one that > > could give me some insight? > > A rear sway bar does two things. First, it provides sway stiffness. > Second, it adjusts the balance between oversteer and understeer. A > stiffer sway bar reduces body lean at the expense of more weight > transfer. ... > The stock DeLorean has no rear sway bar. As a result, the front sway bar > does all the work. This adds a great deal of understeer, compensating > for the DeLorean's natural oversteer tendencies from the rear mounted > engine.