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Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan
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January 2003
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Re: 5 link rear end into orig. leaf sprung car???
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Mon, 10 May 2004 08:33
 
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| gold28 wrote on Mon, 10 May 2004 18:18 |
What benefits are you trying to achieve with a 4 link. If it is just handling, you can make big improvements with a pan-hard rod or watts link. If you are worried about the springs winding up, there are other ways of dealing with that.
If have to go to the trouble of fabricating/engineering all the above mentioned parts, then surely you may as well get rid of the live axle alltogether and weld in a floor pan from an IRS car.
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what benefits? well... imagine a leaf spring rear end car with leaves maybe 3 to 4 inches in from the tyres... now move the springs in an inch? sound good? how about a couple more inches? starting to sound bad huh.... basically it aint gonna cut it as is 
a locater will be good for now, but with different diff housing, different track width, closely spaced leaves are bad. i have never had a problem with wind up so far, but i am envisaging some eville things that could happen in the future.
IRS is an option, but not really for the road. engineering basically needs it to be an ICV because of substantial changes. with 4 link, you can sort of attach the mounting points to the chassis rails and sills, but for IRS, you need a rear subframe, which is attached to the boot floor (pretty much) and then you need to attach this to the rails to transfer the power...
IRS is pretty, but in a 700-800kg car, not really necessary..
if i was going that far, it'd be double wishbones.
of course the other option is de-dion, but i'd like to entertain the 4/5 link option first.
Cya, Steart
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5 link rear end into orig. leaf sprung car???
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oldcorollas | Mon, 10 May 2004 03:03 |
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Lambolica | Mon, 10 May 2004 03:28 |
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Ben Wilson | Mon, 10 May 2004 04:13 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 10 May 2004 04:45 |
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TurboRA28 | Mon, 10 May 2004 05:32 |
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improvedae86 | Mon, 10 May 2004 06:11 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 10 May 2004 06:24 |
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Mr DOHC | Mon, 10 May 2004 07:21 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 10 May 2004 07:51 |
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gold28 | Mon, 10 May 2004 08:18 |
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Lambolica | Mon, 10 May 2004 08:24 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 10 May 2004 08:33 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 10 May 2004 08:48 |
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IRA11Y | Mon, 10 May 2004 09:18 |
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gold28 | Mon, 10 May 2004 10:03 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 10 May 2004 11:48 |
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Jayem | Mon, 10 May 2004 13:19 |
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oldcorollas | Tue, 11 May 2004 05:18 |
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Bill Sherwood | Tue, 11 May 2004 07:35 |
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Purple_Beasty | Tue, 11 May 2004 00:16 |
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Bill Sherwood | Tue, 11 May 2004 03:06 |
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DJ345 | Tue, 11 May 2004 04:38 |
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pro_ke | Tue, 11 May 2004 07:33 |
