Rear Suspension
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:39 pm
I talked to Paul at work the other day about rear suspension and swapping an entire front clip into the rear. he seemed to think that would be a rediculous amount of work and very difficult to keep the new rear square to the existing front during fabrication. also, having an independent rear, would mean having to check the allignment almost after every race.
his suggestion was to replace all of the current links of the existing 4 link setup on the rear and use spherical rod ends too. by doing that you should gain a lot more independent travel in the rear and you wouldn't have to worry about allignment issues. paul also seemed to think, you should get a laser allignment done, front and rear, because the some of the torque steer on pavement could be caused by the rear being off. since you have the adjustable panhard rod now, once at an allignment shop it would be super easy to correct.
his suggestion was to replace all of the current links of the existing 4 link setup on the rear and use spherical rod ends too. by doing that you should gain a lot more independent travel in the rear and you wouldn't have to worry about allignment issues. paul also seemed to think, you should get a laser allignment done, front and rear, because the some of the torque steer on pavement could be caused by the rear being off. since you have the adjustable panhard rod now, once at an allignment shop it would be super easy to correct.