[s-cars] short shaft

[Keith Maddock]

Bill Mahoney <wmahoney at disk.com> wrote:
> I took the bar off and spent hours fiddling with this. It needs to be
> about 30mm longer IME to clear the springs.  Perhaps moving the bar
> towards the rear of the car would provide clearance, but would require
> some major reengineering of the mounting brackets.  So, should I pursue
> the latest generation of HRSB (thinking these may be longer?) Or, weld a
> 30mm extension in the center of the shaft.  Or, cut the bar and join
> each half together with a 75 mm coupling/collar?
> I'm just not engineer enough to figure this out.

Bill,

My vote would be some sort of a collar.  I think welding would alter
the spring rate of the bar too much.  If you can do a cold slice in
the middle, machine some splines in that would match a very stiff
collar, that shouldn't alter the spring rate too much.

or you could find some sort of electromagnetically
activated/deactivated spline, then you could do some active ride
control - leave it decoupled for staight line ride, and have it rigged
to couple upon a certain steering wheel angle / lateral accel / yaw
rate...  That would be fun..  But I digress..

Perhaps the cheapest solution is to find out from Hap if the new
HRSB's are HapperLonger....

Cheers,
Keith