++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[MotF Bane]

Dinner served at 6:40.

 

[MotF Bane]

One hour became two hours, ten minutes.

 

[alfa147x]

Okay looks like my headlight issues have been solved

 

[Locut0s]

$400 and a bunch of other smaller things for Christmas, not bad See my other thread for pics. And let us know what you got there to!

 

[alfa147x]

 

[MotF Bane]

Now looking at sway bars. Found some really interesting information.

 

[MotF Bane]

OUTPUT PICS, ALFA! :awe:

 

[MotF Bane]

Regarding the 2006 G35 lineup...
Front sway bars...
RWD: 26.8mm
AWD: 31.7mm

Rear sway bars...
RWD: 24.4mm
AWD: 17.7mm

 

[MotF Bane]

Now, let's also make a note here, a sway bar's stiffness is a function of a few things, such as stiffness of the material, but really, it's all about thickness - a fourth power function of the bar radius.

 

[MotF Bane]

The AWD has been designed for more understeer characteristics, largely on the idea that it will see worse weather.

So far, I've side-slipped once, and that was lift-off oversteer on wet pavement. But that's irrelevant.

 

[MotF Bane]

For a FWD, dealing with snow/ice oversteer is really, really easy. Dealing with it on a RWD/AWD platform is different, I haven't gotten an encounter yet.

 

[MotF Bane]

FWD oversteer: turn into the skid, apply power. You're done.
RWD oversteer: turn into the skid, ???????.

 

[MotF Bane]

But... the complication. The G35x is RWD, but then if it detects slip, it throws up to 50% of the power into the front wheels.

 

[MotF Bane]

But this is mostly a digression.

My immediate reaction to seeing those sway bar figures is... find a RWD G35 sway bar, and install it into my car. :awe:

 

[MotF Bane]

Oh, somebody has AWD sway bars! Hotchkis has a set. 35mm front, 24mm rear.

So those are 3mm bigger than the stock front, and 7mm bigger than the rear stock, although marginally smaller than the RWD rear stock.

 

[Locut0s]

MotF: Are you going for post count king?

 

[MotF Bane]

Trying to find a working stream for NFL.

 

[MotF Bane]

MotF: Are you going for post count king?

I don't care all that much.

 

[MotF Bane]

NFL closed the first stream, a nice HD one. Found an SD replacement.

 

[MotF Bane]

Seems that the front and rear might be 34/21... then again, the front might be different.

 

[MotF Bane]

Hotchkis website is down.

 

[MotF Bane]

Okay, back to the wheels/tires search.

 

[MotF Bane]

Never mind, I'm burned out.

 

[MotF Bane]

Now just scribbling out a list of ideas for what I can and want to purchase.