Removal of front sway bar
Here's the dealio....
On the G, the removal of the front sway bar will have a variable affect.
What it comes down to is the following....
How much weight do you intend to carry, and what engine weight?
What springs you want to run?
What type of offroading do you do?
If you don't do rock crawl stuff, then removal of it is without purpose, it surely will help in a panic steering situation on a baja highway if your car is loaded with gear, and especially all of those roof rack loaded Gs are helped by keeping the bar on.
If you tend to get car sick, or your passengers do, then the bar definately helps that issue on twistie mtn roads.
The stock springs are not that stiff, so they allow for a good bit of body roll if you are not a trained driver, or react too quick to a suprise deer in the road.....here the front bar helps keep both front wheels on the ground, with more equal weight. Anytime you get a lot of body roll, and there is weight transfer, then even if your outside wheel is still on the ground, it still has less traction.
However, if you lift the G, you need to remove it, or make it's hangers longer.
If lifting it means body lift, then this is not relevant, but if lifting it means a spring lift, ie stiffer springs, then you can be OK removing it, because the stiffer springs will not allow the G to be so prone to body roll.
Part of the benefit of the progressive coils in the back, is the ability to load the car up and have it react the same as being empty when turning at speed. Rebound of the suspension is very well controlled.....unlike leaf spring vehicles which are like shooting a bow and arrow on release.
The springs in the front are not progressive because the front axle weight does not change that much with load differences as compared to the back.
The bar is there mostly for sharp turn in body roll limiting.
A well trained and practiced driver, is not going to do sharp turn-ins in a heavily laden truck at speed......but a novice? or a panic brake/steer responder?
you can see why the lawyers keep it on the car.
I've always told my students, in a panic situation, you still need to somehow refrain from sharp driver inputs. The best drivers are able to stay calm in these situations enough to react, but do so with a fluid style...
in my own opinion... I'd rather hit the deer, than go flying off the road or flip.
But if that deer is an Autocar dumptruck, well then one must find a path around!
