Tigers must not ned panhard rods. Why else do they continue to self destruct by
ripping the welds and or frame from itself? TtT
--- On Sat, 7/5/08, Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net> wrote:
> From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Speaking of Panhard Bars...
> To: drmayf@mayfco.com, "tigers@autox.team.net" <tigers@autox.team.net>,
>"Alpines" <alpines@autox.team.net>
> Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 4:54 PM
> At 04:09 PM 7/5/2008, drmayf wrote:
> >Are there any other cars that use leaf springs like
> our cars and a
> >panhard bar? The use of a panhard bar in our case is
> just counter
> >intuitive to me. The leaf springs keep the rear end
> located and that
> >would seem to make the panhard bar redundant. Yeah, I
> know about wheel
> >hop, but a panhard bar or any other kind of lateral
> location linkage is
> >to keep the rear centered. If I put coil overs on the
> rear of my car,
> >then, yeah, a locating bar would be needed, as well as
> some trailing
> >linkage for fore and aft movement.
> >
> >So why did they install it? Did the Alpine have one? .
>
>
> The much more civilized Alpine did not need a
> Panhard Rod to produce manueverability which, all
> else being equal, routinely leaves Tigers in the
> dust on any sort of decent back road.
>
> The original Tigers were produced by mushing up
> Alpine bodies and the only suspension
> modifications were those necessary to fit that
> ungainly Ford mill into a decently sized engine
> compartment. Hence, the rear suspension remained
> the same -- a torn rotator cuff (damn! there
> goes my career pitching for the Atlanta Braves,
> and I really WAS looking forward to a perfect
> World Series game against the detestable Yankees
> or the even more detestable Boston Dead Sox)
> makes it hard for me to dig out my parts
> manuals. I suspect without checking these that
> the Alpine IIIa/IV rear springs were identical to
> those on the Alpine 260 if not for those on the Alpine V
> and Tiger II.
>
> If you upgrade your rear springs to something
> more in line with that unGodly amount of power
> that barbaric engine provides, a Panhard Rod becomes
> unnecessary.
>
> (The above is all written in good fun save for
> the cmments about the Yankees and the Boston
> Morons, and, yes, I grin as I write these
> words. You guys all live on the Left Coast and
> therefore have no knowledge of REAL baseball.)
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
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