[Fot] GT6 suspension set-up

f s whitedog72 at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 11 19:34:32 MDT 2010


Have any of you tried a very flat rear spring that is a bit longer than stock.
I did it and my car sits really low but the wheels do not have excessive
chamber due to the longer spring pushing the top of the wheels out. I thought
the car felt pretty good in the rear the last time I ran it. Unfortunately I
only had one run on this idea before I took a break to put my boy through
college.

> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:38:52 -0500
> From: jason at multivintage.com
> To: rjl6n at cstone.net
> CC: fot at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] GT6 suspension set-up
>
> All,
> Another memory from my childhood Triumph dreams from the paddock that
> concern rear suspension... You could almost tell who the fast Triumphs were
> going to be by looking at the way the car sat on the jack stands. The cars
> whose rear wheels and axles were flat and still nicely tucked under the
> fenders were going to fly. The ones that sagged to the grass...well not so
> much. When I was looking to buy a car I wanted one that when you jacked up
> rear... the wheels went up too!
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jason Ostrowski
<jason at multivintage.com>wrote:
>
> > Yep, I can remember several instances In the long ago past where we used
to
> > walk the paddock after a big SCCA weekend at Road America looking for
"used"
> > FF tires to use on our Club Raced Spitfires and Gt6's... That still had
> > plenty of life left in them to run up front in a Triumph in Midwestern
> > Council.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:53 AM, <rjl6n at cstone.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jason,
> >>
> >> On Wed, August 11, 2010 10:16 am, Jason Ostrowski wrote:
> >> > we use hoosier street T.D.'s and although quite expensive and
> >> > not long lasting (half a season for the fronts)
> >>
> >> I had to chuckle when I read that. I guess its all relative!
> >> I was lucky to get two race weekends out of a set of tires
> >> on my FF. If I wanted to stay at the front, I needed fresh
> >> tires every weekend.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
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