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Offline kiwi belly tank

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Re: Suspension design [age-old] question
« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2015, 11:36:18 PM »
How did we get to 3-links & rock crawler's from the original question? :?
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Offline Jack Gifford

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Re: Suspension design [age-old] question
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2015, 01:25:52 AM »
... parallel leading arms are no less aero, and only a tiny bit more complex, and fix the problem...
I agree 100%. I only started this topic because I'm amazed how many rods have been built (millions?) with split wishbones (or hairpins)- both front and rear.
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Re: Suspension design [age-old] question
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2015, 12:45:58 PM »
Sorry guys. I was just trying to elaborate on fordboy's comment about using rod ends on suspension links.
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Re: Suspension design [age-old] question
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2015, 05:28:35 PM »
Mount a camera on the car to monitor suspension travel-it isn't that much.  So, all this flexion stuff doesn't matter because the suspension moves thru such a limited range of travel.  A stiff spring and limited travel covers a lot of engineering sins.