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So I've been thinking about a crazy idea - a poor man's third spring. You add an arm to the center of the rear sway bar, and use that to push against a long bumpstop on the body as the rear wing loads the suspension. That keeps the suspension squat from aero load under control, without changing the roll or rear droop compliance so your braking and turning is unaffected. Power-on squat may be affected, depending on the engagement point of the center bumpstop, but probably not nearly as much as using stiffer springs.I sprung up to support the wing but ended up springing back down due to the extra over steer the stiffer rear springs induced
Interesting, have been with out a rear sway bar for a while (took a little getting used to).So I've been thinking about a crazy idea - a poor man's third spring. You add an arm to the center of the rear sway bar, and use that to push against a long bumpstop on the body as the rear wing loads the suspension. That keeps the suspension squat from aero load under control, without changing the roll or rear droop compliance so your braking and turning is unaffected. Power-on squat may be affected, depending on the engagement point of the center bumpstop, but probably not nearly as much as using stiffer springs.
Did you do a saddle type fuel cell or did you mount one in the rear like mine?Ran low on gas twice last year, lost both races and I still had 3-5 gallons in the tank. The goofy saddle tank in the Stangs starves on really big, fast sweepers so I would fill it up. My problem was fuel was still in there but the car went into limp mode thinking the cutting out was an issue. Fuel cell installed now and no starvation!!
or a Jacob's Ladder, but I think our cars are too heavy for one of those, you might want to google (or better DuckDuckGo) some late model dirt track stuff for some real crazy ideas.So I've been thinking about a crazy idea - a poor man's third spring. You add an arm to the center of the rear sway bar, and use that to push against a long bumpstop on the body as the rear wing loads the suspension. That keeps the suspension squat from aero load under control, without changing the roll or rear droop compliance so your braking and turning is unaffected. Power-on squat may be affected, depending on the engagement point of the center bumpstop, but probably not nearly as much as using stiffer springs.
what is that....a shock on the sway bar?Ye gads.. the stress. my trusty mechanic called to say that the car can not run tomorrow because the vibration was still present. Went to see the car and found that the spherical UCA (third one, and last one) had a tiny bit of play.... Changed it and the car ran fine at 145mph. So we are on for tomorrow!!
Talking about weird ideas... this is a front suspension mode of my buddies Nitro S197.....
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Yup, thats what is is....what the intention is... not really sure...what is that....a shock on the sway bar?
To slow the roll rate. Interesting concept.Yup, thats what is is....what the intention is... not really sure...
That may be the thinking, but since it's attached to the sway bar arm, which is solidly attached to the strut & knuckle via the endlink, I think it's just adding extra damping to any wheel movement. It is getting a slight motion ratio multiplier by being attached further out on the swaybar arm than the endlink.To slow the roll rate.
ExactlyThat may be the thinking, but since it's attached to the sway bar arm, which is solidly attached to the strut & knuckle via the endlink, I think it's just adding extra damping to any wheel movement. It is getting a slight motion ratio multiplier by being attached further out on the swaybar arm than the endlink.