FS Hotchkis sway bars
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Hotchkis sway bars
Category: Steering & Suspension
Price: $320
Private or Vendor Listing: Private Listing
Location (State/Prov): FL
Item Condition: Used
The bottom of the front sway bar is scuffed up, but this does not affect performance whatsoever, and you cannot see the scrape marks when sways are installed anyways.
Will work out a deal for local pickup (south FL), but willing to ship.
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That scrape doesn't effect performance? Motion of inertia states the size of a round tube will need x amount of force to twist based off OD and ID or a solid bar. By removing what looks to be a large amount of material, you 100% will change performance since you lost girth on part of the bar. The bar will indeed twist easier now.
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That scrape doesn't effect performance? Motion of inertia states the size of a round tube will need x amount of force to twist based off OD and ID or a solid bar. By removing what looks to be a large amount of material, you 100% will change performance since you lost girth on part of the bar. The bar will indeed twist easier now.
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That scrape doesn't effect performance? Motion of inertia states the size of a round tube will need x amount of force to twist based off OD and ID or a solid bar. By removing what looks to be a large amount of material, you 100% will change performance since you lost girth on part of the bar. The bar will indeed twist easier now.
#1: There is no such thing as motion of inertia. It is MOMENT of inertia that is defined as the measure of an object's resistance to changes in rotation direction. Moment of Inertia has the same relationship to angular acceleration as mass has to linear acceleration.
For a point mass the Moment of Inertia is the mass times the square of perpendicular distance to the rotation reference axis and can be expressed as
I = m r2 (1)
where
I = moment of inertia (lbm ft2, kg m2)
m = mass (lbm, kg)
r = distance between axis and rotation mass (ft, m)
#2: Once again, before you bash- know what you're talking about. Because you saying "what looks to be a large amount of material missing" have you seen them in person? Can you attest to that? No. Its a scrape, and if you know anything about physics, then you know that your argument about feeling a difference in performance due to a scrape on the sway bar is about as idiotic as saying that a scratch on my car is going to affect the downforce enough that i can feel a difference and affect performance.