Thread: And more questions: Front suspension & clearance

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Originally Posted by techinspector1

Faith, in my opinion the first thing you should do is remove the Panhard bar and sling it as far as you can. It is the most awful mechanical abortion that was ever bolted to a car. This Panhard guy should have been suspended in mid-air with a strong cord around his privates until he came up with an acceptable design to limit lateral movement of the axle. That's as nice as I can be about that.

Mr. Techinspector, what's your problem? All this wrath, but no technical logic or explanation for your opinion! I'd like to know why you're so opposed to a Panhard bar! This kind of language doesn't belong here . . . and you're talking to a gal, too!

What is your preference . . . let the shackles swing? Dead perch? Watts linkage? Vertical slot with a roller? IFS?

You're entitled to your opinion, but why should anyone care about what you have to say?

[QUOTE=Hot Rod Roy]Mr. Techinspector, what's your problem? All this wrath, but no technical logic or explanation for your opinion! I'd like to know why you're so opposed to a Panhard bar! This kind of language doesn't belong here . . . and you're talking to a gal, too!

What is your preference . . . let the shackles swing? Dead perch? Watts linkage? Vertical slot with a roller? IFS?

You're entitled to your opinion, but why should anyone care about what you have to say?


Hot Rod Roy: I am not going to speak for Richard (Techinspector 1) He is certainly more than capable than doing that on his own. But I have to ask you your own question......."what's your problem?" For someone to come on here with only 9 posts, even if you did start them in April, and attack one of the nicest, most knowlegable members we have, with no provocation,that is out of line. I reread Richards post 3 times to find what set you off, and can't find one thing he said wrong. He was just giving his opinion, and his language did not contain one swear word. If you take offense at the word "privates" it is you with the problem, not he. I am always the first person to mention to someone on here that certain language is not acceptable, and Richard's was not offensive.

I suggest you learn to not come into something new with guns blasting in the future until you get the lay of the land. I also think you owe Richard an apology. He has always gone out of his way to help everyone possible, and has proven he knows his stuff from more than a bench racing perspective. He is also a very good friend to many of us on this forum, and I won't see him attacked in this manner without giving my two-cents. If you disagree with someone, there is a right and wrong way to do it. You chose the latter.

Oh, and I also agree with him on Panhard's. I have never used one, and find that if you set up your front suspension properly you don't need one. And, they are butt=ugly. Hope the word butt is ok?


Don

I don't like the look of a Panhard bar on an open-wheeled car either. A "dead perch" would do the same thing and look much better.
With conventional steering, it wouldn't matter which side the dead perch went on, but with cross steering it would probably be better on the driver's side.