[Tigers] Torque Arm under braking force diagram?

[Teepen, Jere]

I have had Dan's torque arm on my car for a long time.  I have participated
autocross and open track events and never experienced any issues under
braking.  My brakes are stock front brakes with Dale's rear disc brake kit
(early style).  The information regarding the GM scenario mentions an
inadequate structure for the torque arm.  I am not sure this applies here.  I
am a fan of Dan's torque arm.

-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of genepadgett at comcast.net
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:26 PM
To: Bob H
Cc: Tigers
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Torque Arm under braking force diagram?

Bob,

Many thanks for sharing your rather sobering spinout experiences and the
technical information. The latter is going to take me more than one read to
understand everything, but I am getting the picture! I am thinking that the
Tiger's short wheel base is not helping things in our particular application.

I am inclined to enjoy twisty roads whenever found (and hopefully more
autocrossing in the future). A potential unpleasant surprise under heavy
emergency braking in a sharp corner is not something I want to risk. If I was
just drag racing, or doing stop light burnouts, that would be a much different
situation.

Fellow Listers,

I, for one, am still looking forward to hearing any experiences with the
Caltrac system. It appears to only control axle rotation in the acceleration
mode and the axle is otherwise unrestrained in braking. Seems like a good
application for the Tiger, in theory at least.

Gene



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob H" <tgrrr at meadowcrk.com>
To: "Tigers" <tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:31:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Torque Arm under braking force diagram?

For the more technically oriented in this group:

http://www.unbalancedengineering.com/Product_Development/Development%20of%20t
he%20Unbalanced%20Engineering%20Decoupled%20Torque%20Arm.pdf