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Re: Swing Axles

To: british-cars@Alliant.COM
Subject: Re: Swing Axles
From: mit-eddie!cadev6.intel.com!dbraun@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 90 09:58:52 PDT
>Now I don't claim to be a safety nut, but I can easily justify
>the camber compensator to avoid having an unneeded accident
>or rollover at an event.  Just this August, an early Spitfire
>came dangerously close to a rollover situation at the Roadster
>Factory's party weekend at the autocross.  And that car was driven
>by someone that had autocrossed before.


Do the later (MK IV or 1500) Spitfires with the "pivoting axle"
also have this problem?  What actually pivots on the pivoting
axle, and how does it solve the problem?



Doug Braun                              Intel Corp CAD
(Spitfire MK IV owner)
                                        408 765-4279

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