rear sway bar recommendations
LOL!
No, no one "explained why it works". OMM said you needed it to turn a sprint car, which is only part of the story. The simple fact of the matter is I said an A-body was nearly picking up its wheel in a vintage photograph, and now you've sidetracked us into an irrelevant discussion with regard to a street going A-body. Or any A-body, for that matter. Sure, any car can pick up an inside wheel when pushed hard enough. RWD cars pick up the inside front, FWD cars pick up the inside rear. If a car is doing that though, it means you've surpassed the limit of your suspension, chassis, tires, or all 3. Because it's typically NOT something you want to be doing IF there's anything left for you to do to avoid it.
Sprint and midget racing is a VERY unique application. Obviously the same basic physics applies, but dramatic differences in suspension design, tires, and chassis' means that what you do to set up a sprint or midget is so unlike anything you would do for a street going A-body it makes the reference pretty much useless. And even if it wasn't, neither you or OMM has bothered to talk about the physics of lateral load transfer and how a sprint car deals with that differently than an A-body.
You and OMM are apparently experts in sprint and midget racing, why not enlighten us how ANY of that is even marginally relevant to choosing a sway bar on a street going A-body? Can you? Or are you just trying to come up with any example at all, unrelated or not, to question what I said?
I mean, the current generation of F1 cars use torsion bars, do you think anything they do to set up their suspension is relevant for an A-body? I'll give you a hint, the answer is NO.
Let's go back to the car that started this nonsense
This car (actually both of them) looks like it needs higher wheel rates and a larger front sway bar. Add those things and it will stay flatter in the turn, maintain a larger tire contact patch, and go around the corner faster. Even with the old tire tech it's running.
Of course, if you translate the French it says the #23 car has flat rear tires, soooooo that might be relevant huh?
Nice!
They're fun little cars, I really need to get mine back on the road.
Yup, they are well known for that. They're up against the limits of the design of their chassis and suspension. Pretty common in vintage racing, you don't have the leeway in the rules to make the modifications needed to try and rein that in. Plus the smaller the car gets the more likely it is to do that (one of the reasons sprint cars do it, 84" wheelbase!). Speedsters are pretty little!
That said, Austin Healey 100's aren't much bigger, and they're not known for their wheel jacking tendencies (although they have their own issues!).
LOL!
No, no one "explained why it works". OMM said you needed it to turn a sprint car, which is only part of the story. The simple fact of the matter is I said an A-body was nearly picking up its wheel in a vintage photograph, and now you've sidetracked us into an irrelevant discussion with regard to a street going A-body. Or any A-body, for that matter. Sure, any car can pick up an inside wheel when pushed hard enough. RWD cars pick up the inside front, FWD cars pick up the inside rear. If a car is doing that though, it means you've surpassed the limit of your suspension, chassis, tires, or all 3. Because it's typically NOT something you want to be doing IF there's anything left for you to do to avoid it.
Sprint and midget racing is a VERY unique application. Obviously the same basic physics applies, but dramatic differences in suspension design, tires, and chassis' means that what you do to set up a sprint or midget is so unlike anything you would do for a street going A-body it makes the reference pretty much useless. And even if it wasn't, neither you or OMM has bothered to talk about the physics of lateral load transfer and how a sprint car deals with that differently than an A-body.
You and OMM are apparently experts in sprint and midget racing, why not enlighten us how ANY of that is even marginally relevant to choosing a sway bar on a street going A-body? Can you? Or are you just trying to come up with any example at all, unrelated or not, to question what I said?
I mean, the current generation of F1 cars use torsion bars, do you think anything they do to set up their suspension is relevant for an A-body? I'll give you a hint, the answer is NO.
Let's go back to the car that started this nonsense
This car (actually both of them) looks like it needs higher wheel rates and a larger front sway bar. Add those things and it will stay flatter in the turn, maintain a larger tire contact patch, and go around the corner faster. Even with the old tire tech it's running.
Of course, if you translate the French it says the #23 car has flat rear tires, soooooo that might be relevant huh?
Nice!
They're fun little cars, I really need to get mine back on the road.
Yup, they are well known for that. They're up against the limits of the design of their chassis and suspension. Pretty common in vintage racing, you don't have the leeway in the rules to make the modifications needed to try and rein that in. Plus the smaller the car gets the more likely it is to do that (one of the reasons sprint cars do it, 84" wheelbase!). Speedsters are pretty little!
That said, Austin Healey 100's aren't much bigger, and they're not known for their wheel jacking tendencies (although they have their own issues!).