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Fw: Re front suspension

To: "Land Speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Fw: Re front suspension
From: "Daniel Warner" <dwarner@electrorent.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 05:03:57 -0700
A car I am familiar with, Bill Ward's 250 mph Opel, employs the front axle
welded to the frame construction. I drove the car twice at El Mirage and
once at the salt and noticed no poor ride or handling problems.

Dan Warner
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: V4GR@aol.com <V4GR@aol.com>; land-speed@autox.team.net
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, August 02, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Re front suspension


>I've been toying with fabricating my own split
>wishbones and a transverse spring.  Trailer
>springs and shackles are exactly what I was
>studying.  I think I read an article about
>MorDrop, but we don't have anything like that
>around here that I know of.  The nice thing about
>the truck axle over the car axle, is that the
>truck axle already has about a 3 1/2" drop in it,
>where as the car axles don't offer that much.  On
>the other hand, the bad thing about the truck
>axle is that the spring pads are forged on the
>top instead of the bottom of the axle.  Of
>course, if I use that pad to mount a set of split
>wishbones, then I could put the spring hangers
>lower off the wishbone.  I had also toyed with
>the idea of using some early Camaro mono-leafs,
>cut in half, and clamped in place to result in
>quarter-eleptics.  With the motor pushed back a
>foot or so, the weight on the front springs won't
>be that great.  I've seen several quarter-eleptic
>set-ups on street rods (as well as on a couple of
>old British sports cars) and they are really
>quite simple.  About all I'd need would be the
>springs and about eight U-bolts to clamp
>everything in place.  Then fabricate some shock
>mounts and go for it.  Steering geometry and
>Ackerman principles and all that stuff should
>play a much smaller role in a car that only has
>to go straight ahead.  I guess the solid-
>unsprung idea was just an attempt to justify
>taking the easy and simple way out.  I take it
>solid, unsprung axles just aren't done in LSR.
>
>Dick J
>
>--- V4GR@aol.com wrote:
>>     Perhaps you could fabricate shackles that
>> would bolt to the spring pads
>> on the axle you now have and get a proper
>> length spring at a trailer supply.
>> You really only need one shackle and one fixed
>> end. Some sort of wishbone or
>> 4 bar would need to be made. Around here we
>> have a place called Mor-Drop axle
>> who reforges your axle into a "Dropped axle"
>> Anything like that near you?
>>
>>
>>
>>         Back in the real dark
>> ages some would turn there axle upside down and
>> hang the frame from the
>> springs under tension instead of compression.
>>
>>
>>
>>         Have you thought of Zing the frame. I
>> got a lot of ideas as long as
>> someone else has to do the work. How come I
>> never thought of all this stuff
>> when I was taking that Mustang 2 apart?   Rich
>> Fox
>>
>
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