I guess that leads me back to my original comment-
If it's the pinion angle changing during acceleration that is inducing wheel hop, a sway bar won't help much. That is why they have sway bars and traction bars- They are designed for different handling issues. FWD is a different animal completely. Since the wheels have to turn, you don't have many options outside of a sway bar.
GTODEALER made a comment that his hop is virtually eliminated on concrete but not on asphalt- Asphalt tends to provide more traction than concrete (in most cases on average roads) so I'm still not convinced the sway bar helped much. I can accelerate on finished concrete all day with minimal hopping, but asphalt is another story.
Unfortunately, here in Northern Illionis, a majority of the roads are asphalt and concrete is saved for the expressways (in certain areas) where I won't be worried about axle hop while driving at 80 mph.
My contention is that regardless of the size of the sway bar, if both wheels are hopping, the sway bar does vitually nothing since it will move up and down with both wheels in unison by design. Sway bars use twisting motion from side to side to help keep the opposite wheel planted on the pavement during cornering etc but I still believe in straight line acceleration, a sway bar does little if anything.
Just my 2 cents-
It sounds like we are kinda SOL for the moment until something either factory or aftermarket is designed to assist us in our plight. :willy:
Elm.