Jay, you are right, by stiffening one end, you will also soften the other.
The book "Vintage Racing British Sports Cars" goes into good detail on the
Alpine and Tiger as to what current vintage racers are doing. One of the
first mods is to install tiger front springs (as the Alpines have a
tendency to be soft from the factory) with one coil cut off. This will
also lower the car. A good example would be my a picture of my car on
the Alpine web page. A larger front sway bar is also installed, and as
I remember no rear bar is added as it induces oversteer. Anyway, this
solution may not be perfect for everyone, but it produced a stable and
neutral handling car that is probably faster that a Tiger in an
autocross.
Ted Reese
'66 Alpine
On 13 May 1996, Jay Laifman wrote:
> Bill Lewis
>
> writes:
>
> P.S. Isn't there someone out there that has put a rear sway bar on an
> early series car? I'd like to talk to them to figure out how to mount it
> to the frame since the early series cars don't have frame bolts."
> ***** NOTES from Jay Laifman (JLAIFMAN (at) PNM) at 5/13/96 4:47p
> I have not seen it, but I did have someone comment to me about rear sway
> bars in general - a topic about which I know next to nothing. He said
> that if you stiffen one end of the suspension, it will increase the
> "softness" of the other end. So, some sort of balancing is required.
> Anyone have any experience finding the proper "balance" for the Alpine?
>
> Jay
>
> Jay S. Laifman
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> (310) 201-8915
>
>
>
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