BTCC A4Q anti-roll bars

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <970119181201_71344.2441_GHL101-2@CompuServe.COM> "David G. Lawson" writes:

> While reviewing the A4q article in racecar engineering, I finally found a 
> photograph which shows the anti-roll bars. Phil Payne mentioned a few
> months ago that upon inspection these had aerodynamic type designs.
> I was intrigued by that description. Then upon reviewing the article 
> photgraphs, I saw what Phil was talking about. The shape is used for
> getting variable anti-roll bar rates and not really for its aerodynamic
> properties.

> What Phil saw were the machined ends attached to the bar.

What Phil saw was a five-foot anti-roll bar that stretched right across the 
back of the car.  Phil didn't just _see_ it - Phil had to _swing_ on it to lift 
the front of the car so that the poor man from Audi could get his jack 
underneath it to lock the car rigid on the display stand.
 
This was, however, the 1995 car - it was a special body built for Biela to do 
some advance testing in Spain.  It's thoroughly possible that the 1996 car is 
entirely different.
 
But what _I_ saw was a full-width anti-roll bar with an aerodynamic section.  
Anyone in the UK going to the Autosport exhibition or to Coy's is welcome to 
join me under the car and see. 

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club