Crazy idea

Lonewolf3165 said

Too impractical. Too much unsprung weight. Compare the weight of a torsion bar compared to a coil spring.

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No, the upsrung weight is the part of the spring weight that moves with the wheel/axle. Roughly half of the weight of a coil spring is unspring weight and more than 50% of a multi-leaf leaf spring is unsprung weight. NONE of the t-bar weight is unsprung wieght, regardless if it through a pivot in an contrl arm (like in the Chrysler front suspension) or in a VW or Porsche arrangment; the T-bar weight in all of those cases is part of the SPRUNG weight.

FORMULA 1 CARS HAVE GONE FROM COILS TO T-BARS TO REDUCE UNSPRUNG WEIGHT. And T bar weight can be made much, much smaller than what we have in Chrysler front ends by using hollow tubes rather than solid bars. As I recall, the VW 't-bars' are hollow tubes for this reason.

Leafs and live axles are pretty much the worst systems around for unsprung wieght ..... fine for drag racing.... poor for any sort of pavement that is not billiard broad flat.