Rear Suspension Type Ideas

[rustomatic]

I don't mean to be a dork, but grab a triangle and move it up and down on a diagonal axis (note the front fixed point). The thing changes shape, meaning with some triangulated suspension thing, you're going to multiply your spring rate at the wrong time in a turn (under compression), and your car will go skipping away like a flat rock. You'll also effectively shorten your suspension travel, which is bad for any kind of practical usage (2-3 inches means broken parts on the street, at embarrasing times). There are many good ideas surrounding the parallel leaf spring arrangement that people are forgetting here...



On the weight side of things, compare the weight of two two-inch wide, 28-inch long leafs with tube shocks to a couple of burly coilovers (with brackets and rods made of more burly material), and you get nearly nowhere. Let it flex, without body roll...

Just two cents on an issue that can pointlessly cost far more than it's worth...