Who sells thicker sway bars for a 308??

Superformance Uk sells an upgraded rear one

 

Depending on what model you have, and how big you want to go, you could use some OEM units.
The 308 GTS had a 19mm rear, and is a direct bolt on to any other 308.
And I found that the Mondial had a 22mm front bar that would fit on a 308 if you make sure to get the Mondial end links as well.

 

Thicker rear bar with no change to front would increase over steer, FWIW.

SDoug

 

i had sort of the same question in mind: why do you need thicker swaybars, what's the goal?

 

I've done a full set of suspension upgrades... in several stages, including upsized tires, poly bushings, heavier sway bars, adjustable shocks with stronger springs... I have to say that the heavier sway bars made the single biggest difference in the car's ability to corner faster with less body roll compared to any of the other upgrades.

 

Agree with Mike C's above post. Of course did the same sway/bushing/shock/spring upgrades, lowering suspension upgrades (and WOW does all that add up $$,$$$ fast!). Makes for far modern handling and tames the snap oversteer. Is it 'worth' the price, well... discussing worth and Ferrari in the same sentence is really reserved for very rare cars.

Of course if you love the car and have a near bottomless wallet...

Only larger F/R bar combo that was offered as i recall was from Saner, who no longer seems to be around. Tried to get someone else to offer them, yet he felt the liability was too high. i debated offering it, yet just not worth my time quite frankly.

 

That's great info. So the next question is, how big did you go? And then I guess the next question is how big are the swaybars on the 88.5 and 89 328's!

 

St@ven ... I remember you mentioning seeing some race where the guys had disconnected the rear sway bar ... I'm not sure what the reason for that was ... maybe totally amature and wanted to make sure the car pushed or something?

I was experiencing some serious oversteer that I thought was the swaybar ... it turned out to be not enough toe in on the rear. At my last autocross I had the following setup:

Saner swaybars front and rear set on minimum stiffness (I tried to get more of these made and he kept my deposit without delivering ... I have another source but I only need one set).

375# front ... 325 # rear springs

QA1's set at 6 on the rear ... 12 (max) on the front.

Camber ... 3.0 on both rears ... 2.7 right front ... 2.3 left front.

There was some sections where one could carry speed thru corners without forcing understeer or oversteer to happen with braking or acceleration ... she was pushing just a bit on the side with 2.3 deg camber and on the side with 2.7 I never did find the limit ... I was really happy that the oversteer problem I was having was gone and I'm running the same size tires on all four corners.


cheerss

 

If rain, disconnecting rear anti-roll and moving the brake bias more to the rear is a known good to some extent PROVIDED you are staring with a relatively neutral car. Not sure why one would really want to remove rear anti-sway in the dry for road/road course track use.

 

I got mine from Saner Performance back around 2004. The 3-way adjustable stabilizer bars are zinc-plated 1.0" (25mm) front and 7/8" (22mm) rear, with urethane bushings and fully adjustable end-links.

 

Just for reference, here you can really see how realitively whimpy the stock 308QV bars are compared to the heavier stabilizer bars from Saner! Compare them where they pass through their respective bushings...
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In the past i had a stacked pair of original sway bars on my Alfasud, cut of the ends from the extra bar, use spacers and clamps, just a thought...

 

Mike are these parts still available?

 

I don't think so... people have been saying that Saner Performance is no longer to be found. I know that their old website is gone. Here is the info I had for them back when I bought mine:

Saner Performance Fabrication
1449 SW Flounder Lane
Port St. Lucie, FL 34953
(561) 873-0238
http://www.sanerperffab.com

Or... did you mean my old stock parts?

 

Has there been update to finding performance spec sway bars?

 

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/308-328/407286-new-addco-sway-bars-oh-yeah.html

 

Sarcasm? All I see are countless F-Chat posts about slow/no delivery, incorrect specs, etc., etc. And the ADDCO website shows how I can happily firm up such high-modification-interest cars like Internationals, Yugos, AMC's, Buicks and Sunbeams – but Ferrari isn't even listed. Did we drive the guy crazy because of our collective "Ferrari-ness", or did they just give up?
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