Hi, all:
Thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.
The tiger and alpine sway bars have the same part numbers in the
catalogs, so I believe that they are the same size bar for both cars.
Rick at specialties could probably confirm, but I imagine that the bar
for sale on the web would fit an alpine. Does it have all the mounting
hardware, though?
I've talked to tiger owners who have put on rear bars and uprated bars
and they love them, and I've talked to Alpine owners and Tiger owners
(and read messages on the list from same) who stick with the front bar
only and love the car that way. I guess it's subjective.
Vic, thanks for your story. It confirms my belief that I want to get a
rear bar and an uprated front bar for my Alpine sometime soon.
Regards
David Sosna
S4 GT V6
V.Hughes wrote:
>
> Robert
>
> Have no experience with rear sway bar on Alpines but I once fitted one
> to a 1965 Holden (that's a GM car, Ford Falcon size, in Australia).
> These cars were terminal understeerers (it nearly was terminal for me on
> one occasion - after 30 years the vision of going head on toward a tree
> in a car that was not responding to steering input is still fresh in my
> mind!) and the sway bar reduced this trait substantially, making the car
> near-neutral. You could expect a similar result on an Alpine as the
> principal holds good, but what degree of change is hard to say. The bar
> basically increases the roll stiffness at the rear which helps the front
> end grip better. It sounds counter-intuitive at first but it works.
>
> However the Tiger bar (even if it fits) may be too strong for an
> Alpine. I'm sure Tigers had stiffer springs and the sway bar would have
> probably been 'tuned' to them.
>
> That's my opinion. Now let's see what the experts say
>
> Vic Hughes
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