Double anti-roll bar

[RichardHyde]

I’ve read about Geoff’s thicker ARB and heard of these fabled thicker ARBs on early cars.

Has anybody ever installed another ARB to reduce roll without fitting stiffer springs ?

Guess you’d need some kind of block bolted to the subframe, which splits in half to allow ARB installation. A similar block at the strut end too.

Is this idea bonkers ?

Does remind me of the double calliper trick, which used to be quite popular.

[cleverusername]

I’ve read about Geoff’s thicker ARB and heard of these fabled thicker ARBs on early cars.

Has anybody ever installed another ARB to reduce roll without fitting stiffer springs ?

Guess you’d need some kind of block bolted to the subframe, which splits in half to allow ARB installation. A similar block at the strut end too.

Is this idea bonkers ?

Does remind me of the double calliper trick, which used to be quite popular.

In theory it would work, if an anti-roll bar can be modeled like a spring, adding springs in parallel gives you a single spring with the same sprint constant as the spring constant of the two springs added together.

Figuring out the mountings and the geometry is another matter.

[trackerjack]

I had a double anti roll bar fitted to an Escort Mexico that I owned in the seventies and tried to copy the idea on the Sprint but gave up and made a thicker standard type one from a Sierra bar (what else). At castle Combe it made no difference to lap times but did not crash potholes so much. What happened to it I cannot recall because I junked it as a waste of effort.
Good luck Richard.