Re: Why Sliding block on racers

[Simon Favre <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You're comparing two very different animals here. The watts linkage on
transaxle cars was used with a deDion tube (no matter how you spell it).
The GTA and GTAm, all had a classic live rear end. The sliding block
was a very solid way to locate the rear axle during hard cornering, and
it lowered the rear roll center. I believe you can achieve basically the
same result with a properly designed and installed Panhard rod. The watts
linkage is much more complicated, correct?

>Can anybody tell me why the GTA, jr,m's all used the sliding block rear
>suspension as opposed to a watts linkage (like the alfetta)?
>
>I'm considering making a GTAm replica, but would rather put in a less 
>maintainence watts linkage instead of the sliding block.  If there were a
>really good reason, then I would consider doing the sliding block...

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