stiffer rear springs

[Tom87]

I'd be looking at shocks closely too, I've had great experiences with solid axles and Bilstein's high pressure digressive valve mono tubes. Really can't afford the axle jiggling around more than it has to seeing as it is connected to both wheels.

[flat6]

I run stiffer Eibach wagon springs on my Octy sedan.
Flat6, I can't see how adding a strut bar at the front would increase over-steer & removing would create understeer. Generally stiff rear, soft front = oversteer; stiffen front creates understeer.

I understand the physics to it, rear affects the front vice versa and in most situations your right, but the front bar definitely sharpened the turn-in on this car

[sambb]

agree with you totally regarding consistent ride heights and the fact that you still keep a degree of independent-ness to the beam axle rear end without the RSB. They turn in differently with stiffer rear springs too I reckon - you have a stiff rear already in action the moment you turn in, no delay for the roll to begin before the RSB adjusts the rear axle.
Is your octavia a twist beam or IRS? Yeah 9N3's have a twist beam rear end like the MK4 golf, skoda Fab and polo 6R so a spring swap should be pretty painless.
Was looking at k-mac custom springs (30% uprated) but it might be cheaper to just hang out for a set of eibach's and use the rears (20mm drop). I'll have standard springs/ride height up front.

[brad]

I understand the physics to it, rear affects the front vice versa and in most situations your right, but the front bar definitely sharpened the turn-in on this car

turn-in is different to understeer/oversteer.

sambb: IRS

[sambb]

Brad you got me thinking about running wagon springs. Anyone here know if the Skoda Fabia wagon runs the same beam axle as the hatch? If it did, those rears would be uprated for sure.