Thread: triangulated 4 bar

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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

It looks good Don, just curious how well it will work with such short lower arms and such a tight angle on the upper bar...... I'm not saying it won't work, just wondering if the short bars might react too fast to torque loads....?????? We've used setups similar in design on circle burners and always went to shorter arms on shorter tracks to make the chassis react faster..... Anxious to hear how it works.... Now, to lighten the hook you could always put a torque absorbing spring/shock setup in the upper link and..... ahhh, never mind!!!! I'll have ya out dirt trackin'!!!!!!!

Dave, I was thinking about the same thing.
I am surprised you did'nt bring up putting in a "Z-bar".

Originally Posted by erik erikson

Dave, I was thinking about the same thing.
I am surprised you did'nt bring up putting in a "Z-bar".

Well, can't say the idea didn't cross my mind..... Often wonder how some of the race car stuff would work with a bit of redesign to facilitate a right hand turn and substituting polyurethene ends for those noisy, clanky heims!!!!

I like the design on Don's, really curious to see how it works on the street!!!!!

Well here's my copy of your suspension Don, not as pretty but I'll clean it up once everything is mocked up (days of grinding to come ). Used some scrap metal I had and some new bushings from an Impala, $50 total. Tell me if you think it looks okay, but don't look too close!! I can jack the wheel up about 7" with no binding.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12817213@N06/2219011051/

I can't figure out how to attach pictures like everyone else, my files are too big, I'll have to read that again.

Sean