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[wally8]

Steve's got it right, the CT guys are way out in left field with what they're doing. Just shows how radical you can get when you're only trying to do one thing.

The 4 links as done on an LM are pretty complex (they use birdcages too). I've been around them for a lot of years and I still find myself asking questions about this or that and many, many times about why. It seems little of the CT evolution has happened as a result of theory. There's a lot of experimentation. When you apply theory to it, many times it makes no sense. Sometimes it's very complex and takes awhile to work throught the theoretical background. PHB jacking was / is a fad right now but some people are figuring out that a car still works best when you use all 4 tires. I've still got a ways to go before I'd be considered an expert in that arena (or any arena for that matter).

I wouldn't want to get into a CT 4 link in this application. It's a little too complex for this and really is doing some things opposite of what you'd want here. There's bar angles and lengths to consider, locking one cage or the other, spring indexing...... It goes on and on.

Steve,

I'm up here where Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska come together. I'm close enought to meet you there and I could talk a buddy into a road trip to see some racing. Let me know later this summer if it will work out for you and we can see if we can set it up. Maybe I'll pull the camper down and try and find a spot somewhere.

I used to do my National Guard drills in Boone and most of my buddies went to ISU (I'm a Hawkeye, myself).

Let me know. Where are you, BTW? (I should check your profile, I guess). EDIT: I guess that LOCATION: NEW YORK would give it away :-)


Wally

[CoryM]

I looked into Zlinks briefly just out of curiosity. It can be a very tidy package with lateral mounted torsion bars and it certainly looks cool. Most of the sprint car guys here have gone to coilovers instead of torsion bars though. As you said Wally, the only thing I see going for it is the short links, and the ability to crank up the antisquat to pretty extreme amounts. Then again, I'm pretty green on this stuff so I miss lots.
http://68.116.83.184/CP/index.html This guy started a Zlink 2nd gen trans am, hasn't updated for a long time though.

[wally8]

Yeah, the torsion bar thing was interesting but doesn't seem to be the hot ticket these days. I've noticed the same thing. I personally have never used torsion bars so I don't have any real info on them.

I need to go look for some good pics so people can actually see what I'm talking about.


Wally