Originally Posted by Solracer
Nope a Strut Bar is the bar that connects from the shock towers and over the engine, when you lif the the hood you can see it.
A sway connects to each side of the suspension through some busing and helps the car when cornering and effectivly increase's the front spring rate. Add a Front sway to a FWD car you will probably incrase its tendency to plow through a corner, however it will probably transision quicker so in stock class some people perer the quick trasitions they get from a bigger sway.
Actually that's not always true since I have 4 strut bars on my 00 Civic. Front upper (in the engine bay), front lower (connecting the lower control arms), rear upper (in the trunk attaching the shock towers), and rear lower connecting the lower subframe).
A sway bar (anti-roll bar) prevents the car from leaning (or swaying). There's two schools of thought of adding a front sway bar to a car. Some say if you make the front bar stiff enough it can negate the understeer to make the front tires BITE better hence decreasing understeer. The other school of thought is that a front sway bar will make a car understeer more. *shrugs*
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