Seeing an ad for the Alta Performance mini cooper endlinks in the back of the mag this month got me thinking about these again.
I understand why adjustable endlinks are desired on a lowered car, and sort of understand how to install them properly, get the bar unloaded and parallel to the ground etc..., but most cars I have seen, when lowered, require a shorter endlink.
I just lowered my 2009 Accent. The endlinks run from the end of the front sway bar, to brackets on the side of the struts. Since the car is lower, the struts are compressing more, pulling the bar higher vertically. By this logic, the correct thing to do is to install longer end links to bring the bar back down to its proper location.
Is this right? Out of curiosity are there other cars that utilize a similar arrangement? Am I just wasting my time thinking about such things?
here are some pics for reference http://a.imageshack.us/img217/4706/20100803171233.jpg http://a.imageshack.us/img820/9862/20100803190015.jpg
