Sway Bar!

[keesue]

Upgraded sway bars (in this case thicker in the front and added in the back) will stabilize the car in hard cornering by counteracting lean induced by gravity. I will say that the stock set up on the Yaris is great; however, if you really want to extract the most from the car, thicker/stronger bars will help. It should be noted that its best to lower the center of gravity before tightening the car with sway bars to keep the handling more predictable. A high center of gravity with thick sway bars make the car a bit unstable in hard turns. This is one of the reasons why there is no sway bar on the car.

Correction: No rear sway bar in the car. The front is there but thin due to ride height and lack of a bar in the back...sorry, long day...heh.

[Biggie™]

Originally Posted by keesue

Upgraded sway bars (in this case thicker in the front and added in the back) will stabilize the car in hard cornering by counteracting lean induced by gravity. I will say that the stock set up on the Yaris is great; however, if you really want to extract the most from the car, thicker/stronger bars will help. It should be noted that its best to lower the center of gravity before tightening the car with sway bars to keep the handling more predictable. A high center of gravity with thick sway bars make the car a bit unstable in hard turns. This is one of the reasons why there is no sway bar on the car.

Correction: No rear sway bar in the car. The front is there but thin due to ride height and lack of a bar in the back...sorry, long day...heh.

There is a sway bar in the back... It's what the wheels are attacked to!

But really, the torsion style suspension utilizes "torsion a.k.a. spring" in the components. That swaybar shaped beam the wheels/brakes/springs/shocks and such are attached to is in fact a swaybar.