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Originally Posted by stevehecht
Right, but that is still part of the picture.
Question: Besides lowering CoG, don't stiffer springs by themselves help control body roll? Don't they in effect act as part of a stiffer chassis?
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Yea, definitely, every suspension component plays into the overall picture. But stiffening springs (lowering) or shocks will affect the ride a lot, i.e. how the car drives going straight. Changing the damper rate also won't affect body roll in steady state cornering, since dampers only affect the suspension as it moves up or down (with constant cornering you will be in a constant laterally loaded state).
The anti-roll bars on the other hand only affect the suspension when one side of the vehicle suspension compresses more than the other. They prevent this by loading up like a spring. Really stiff ARB's are bad if you hit a pot hole, in that they limit the ability of a suspension component to act independently of others. In the limit of stiff ARB's, you have a solid axle.