I've been toying with fabricating my own split
wishbones and a transverse spring. Trailer
springs and shackles are exactly what I was
studying. I think I read an article about
MorDrop, but we don't have anything like that
around here that I know of. The nice thing about
the truck axle over the car axle, is that the
truck axle already has about a 3 1/2" drop in it,
where as the car axles don't offer that much. On
the other hand, the bad thing about the truck
axle is that the spring pads are forged on the
top instead of the bottom of the axle. Of
course, if I use that pad to mount a set of split
wishbones, then I could put the spring hangers
lower off the wishbone. I had also toyed with
the idea of using some early Camaro mono-leafs,
cut in half, and clamped in place to result in
quarter-eleptics. With the motor pushed back a
foot or so, the weight on the front springs won't
be that great. I've seen several quarter-eleptic
set-ups on street rods (as well as on a couple of
old British sports cars) and they are really
quite simple. About all I'd need would be the
springs and about eight U-bolts to clamp
everything in place. Then fabricate some shock
mounts and go for it. Steering geometry and
Ackerman principles and all that stuff should
play a much smaller role in a car that only has
to go straight ahead. I guess the solid-
unsprung idea was just an attempt to justify
taking the easy and simple way out. I take it
solid, unsprung axles just aren't done in LSR.
Dick J
--- V4GR@aol.com wrote:
> Perhaps you could fabricate shackles that
> would bolt to the spring pads
> on the axle you now have and get a proper
> length spring at a trailer supply.
> You really only need one shackle and one fixed
> end. Some sort of wishbone or
> 4 bar would need to be made. Around here we
> have a place called Mor-Drop axle
> who reforges your axle into a "Dropped axle"
> Anything like that near you?
>
>
>
> Back in the real dark
> ages some would turn there axle upside down and
> hang the frame from the
> springs under tension instead of compression.
>
>
>
> Have you thought of Zing the frame. I
> got a lot of ideas as long as
> someone else has to do the work. How come I
> never thought of all this stuff
> when I was taking that Mustang 2 apart? Rich
> Fox
>
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