Re: Axle limit straps

[Alan Lambert <lechefgerard@domain.elided>]

George--don't you oversteer with this setup?--I've been advised to use
1100# front and 180# rear. Alan Ward uses even stiffer fronts.

--- George Schweikle <schweikg@domain.elided> wrote:

> ....800# front and 300# rear springs, so the lean will be reduced
> further.
> 
> I shortened the limit straps to eliminate rear sway bar link binding,
> since I
> moved the pickup hole locations to shorten the moment arm and make
> the bar
> action stiffer,
> (snip) Having done all this, the rear axle should be hanging in the
> limit
> straps.
> 
> Wasn't George one of the proponents of removing the limit straps from
> the rear
> suspension for autocrossing?  There was some discussion a while back
> with the
> end result being that several very successful autocrossers (and I
> know George
> is in that camp) removed the limit straps to keep them from lifting
> the inside
> rear wheel on hard corners.
> 
> If so, I'll be looking over both methods but Dana's sounds promising,
> as both
> my Alfas still have the straps in place.  I will be going one step
> farther,
> however, as I'll almost certainly be replacing the trailing arm
> bushings as
> well.  Probably not for a
> couple of weeks, but soon...
> 
> - --Scott Fisher
>   Tualatin, Oregon
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