[Tigers] Speaking of Panhard Bars...

[Duke Samouce]

My car is running without traction bars or a panhard rod.  Both of those
devices seem to be fixes for the soft OEM springs.  I have Dale's rear
springs installed and they are great.  I have no issues doing a burnout
(other than not enough HP for a good long one) and having any wheel-hop.  I
have not encountered any wheel-hop with his springs yet.  Once I have much
more HP with a different engine, that may change.  For a Tiger with a 260,
HEHE transmission, 3.07 rear gears and a limited slip unit....the springs
are perfect.

My .02

Duke

-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces+wsamouce=kc.rr.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:tigers-bounces+wsamouce=kc.rr.com at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
drmayf
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 4:09 PM
To: tigers at autox.team.net; Alpines
Subject: [Tigers] Speaking of Panhard Bars...

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? .  

mayf
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