[s-cars] What does an s-car weigh????

[Trevor Frank]

AAh Teddy, yes so I have though about making a new front link and then a
drop link to the swaybar.  Or my other thought, I have some nice big
spherical bearings that I am trying to make a holder for that will
either connect to the stock lower arm.  Or maybe make a new lower arm
that has heims and make the mounting point to the lower arm adjustable.
This way you could possably play with all or none of the following, anti
dive, caster, wider track....

One of many project.  Right now I am putting 8611 double adjustable
front struts on my car and I have shortened the front strut to get a bit
more suspension travel and to move the steering arm down a bit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Theodore Chen [mailto:tedebearp at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:40 AM
To: Trevor Frank
Cc: s-cars
Subject: RE: [s-cars] What does an s-car weigh????


--- Trevor Frank <tfrank at symyx.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm, looks like your car is't heavier than mine about 10lb before I
> replaced the seats, now about 110lb's.  Also if you had coil overs you
> could at least attempt to get you weights better, with the driver.  I
> got mine down to about a 50lb spread side to side on the fronts and
less
> than that for cross weighting, something silly like less than 5 in the
> back.  The real killer is that you cannot do much about the front sway
> bar.

what about changing the front suspension?  reinforce the front subframe
and add tabs to carry another link to the upright.  this removes the
locating function of the antiroll bar.  then you'd have to come up with
some way to connect an antiroll bar to the strut, spindle, or control
arm.

i thought about this while struggling to separate the spindle from the
balljoint so i could replace the balljoint boot.  (i gave up in disgust
after unbolting the antiroll bar and discovering that i still couldn't
separate the spindle from the balljoint.)

-teddy


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