Originally Posted by Mike n Helen
When I say "terrible handling" what I mean is "body roll". The cars set up is very soft and bounces around to much for me. It provides little feedback through the steering and as such does not make for an enjoyable roadster driving experience, espacially in the Lake District where the roads are just over 6ft wide and dry stone walls on both sides, or worse, a dry stone wall on one side and just a massive drop on the other.
Swaybars are the quick, cheap, easy way to help a little with body roll...the front will help a bit with the steering too. Unfortunately, the steering is the worst part of the car...the overboosted recirculating ball isn't ever going to be great, regardless of what you do suspension wise.
Shorter stiffer springs with matched dampers would be the next step...doing shocks alone isn't really going to change things that much in the body roll dept.