Joined: Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:54:06 Posts: 1652 Location: Rijswijk, Netherlands
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It depends highly on what type of track and tyres you race on whether sway bars are needed. Generally with rubber tyre racing sway bars are only used if grip is exceptionally high and then usually only indoors on carpet. With foam tyres sway bars are more common to use but even here they are not allways used. This is why sway bars are available as an option to those that want/need it.
The reason the shocks don't have aluminum shock housings is that in general the team prefers the composite ones. They are lighter, smoother and generally easier to fine tune in terms of rebound and equality all round. I suggest you have a look at all the team's setups over the course of the past 3-4 years. You'll be hard pressed to find even one that used the aluminum shock housings. Personally I don't consider it an upgrade to go to the aluminum housings...
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