bahearn

Springs are the "shock absorbers" in the system. They also maintain front and rear ride height as well as roll control.

Dampers are strictly for control spring deflection rate and oscillation. They are NOT for preventing bottoming of suspension, that's a job for springs. If you're bottoming the suspension on a regular basis, your springs are TOO SOFT.

Sway bars are for TUNING roll rate, not total control of roll rate. A sway bar is only as good as the spring it works against. Soft springs and stiff sway bars still equals lots of roll.

No. Suspension deflection causes geometry change. Bottoming out causes an instaneous and nearly infinite increase of spring rate but does't change geometry.

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Wont Be Beat

I guess its all in how you look at it. To me, the compression of a spring and the inherent camber change is a change is suspension geometry. See my point now?

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