Thread: Rear suspension question

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Tony,

A couple of questions for you... first, shock angle. MrChips mentioned his cars shocks were angled forward 30 degrees. Seems to me that the shocks would possibly be more functional angled side-to-side. My thoughts are that it would help keep the car from going into excessive lean angles in the event of a swerve, and aid in a more stable ride? With leaf springs there may be a little bit of side-to-side movement because of looseness, or wear in the spring shackles and bushings and I figure the shocks would possible keep this movement to a minimum.
I have a problem with a suspension set-up I have been working on with my car because of lack of room between the frame rails. I haven't touched it in a while because of helping other people with their projects. One of these days I hope to get back to it and would like to get it set up correctly.
I have noticed on several factory suspensions that one shock is angled to the front and the other is angled to the rear. Is there any preferred angle, front, back or sideways for the shocks? I set mine up angled sideways but I was told that the angle should not be more than 30 degrees by the vendor that I bought my coil-overs from. I have some issues trying to set my triangulated 4 bar before mounting the shocks, but it appears that my frame is too narrow.
I didn't mean to hijack the thread, just trying to get good information.

I have noticed on several factory suspensions that one shock is angled to the front and the other is angled to the rear. Is there any preferred angle, front, back or sideways for the shocks? I set mine up angled sideways but I was told that the angle should not be more than 30 degrees by the vendor that I bought my coil-overs from. I have some issues trying to set my triangulated 4 bar before mounting the shocks, but it appears that my frame is too narrow.
I didn't mean to hijack the thread, just trying to get good information.[/QUOTE]

They did that on leaf spring cars to help control spring wrap up on accel & decel.