I think I can handle that...if memory serves me...
think of the entire rear axle and 'torgue' arm as being the same
design as that of a motorcycles rear swing arm.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Trebelhorn" <matttrebelhorn@netscape.net>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:02 AM
Subject: Suspension question -- No MG content
So in a recent edition of one of the British mags, there's a feature on a
disassembled, beat-up Bugatti type 35, which is still one of the most beautiful
things I've ever seen.
They talk in detail about some of the quirks/flashes of engineering genius on
the car, and they mentioned one thing that I didn't quite get.
Apparently, the rear suspension features what they call a "torque arm" as an
anti-squat measure. If I'm looking at the right place, it looks like it's just
a huge trailing arm that mounts *very* solidly to the center of the axle.
So if it's a trailing arm that doesn't bend, wouldn't it just lock the
suspension entirely? I must have missed something. It says that because of
the torque arm, the rear of the car actually rises under acceleration.
Just idle curiosity -- hell, it took me over a month to even bother to ask --
but curiosity none the less. Can somebody explain what this is/how it works?
Matt
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