How are those Victoria springs? Is ride hight right and is the spring
rate comfortable? Dan Wallters in So.Cal. makes a torque arm that
attaches without modifying the car. Works extremely well. He is in the
CAT club.
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:01:17 -0400 "D. Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
writes:
>I'm kinda new to this Tiger stuff, at least so far as having one that
>actually is a decent looking, driveable car, as opposed to one that
>sits
>around my yard/garage for 15 or so years. Anyway, now that the beast
>drives, and autocrosses, I find that the rear axle hop is at least as
>bad
>as I remember it from 15 years ago. My car has not had the panhard rod
>connected at both ends any time that I have driven the car, and having
>it
>connected at only one end did not seem effective so I removed it. I
>know
>that this was supposed to have been engineered (cobbled up?) by the
>great
>automotive guru Shelby, but the darn thing just does not look right.
>When
>the car is setting level the panhard rod is far from level, forcing
>the
>axle to move in much more of an arc than it should if the mounts were
>in
>line. I suspect this is a lot of the reason that the mount pulled
>loose
>from the frame. I understand that the factory LeMans cars had the
>mount
>lowered 3", which would put the two mounts much more in line than the
>normal production car.
> Well enough rambling on about that. My real concern is rear
>axle hop on
>hard acceleration and powering around corners. I've got new rear
>springs
>ouy of Victoria British and Spax shocks with 185/60 13 yokahama 008's
>. it
>sticks pretty good, but I'd really like to get the rear axle under
>control.
>What are other people doing for this? I'd appreciate any ideas.
>Thanks, Doug Leithauser
>B9472853 resurected rusted piece of s**t, pop riveted VIN tag before I
>knew
>anyone cared.
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