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Re: suspension question
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Wed, 02 February 2005 07:01
 
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Hmm, 'rally suspension' is somewhat different to 'drift', 'racing' or 'sports' suspension (i use the terms in '' rather loosely as everyones opinion of what they are is lible to differ!).
It really depends on what you have planned for the car? Rally cars generally tend to go for much higher suspension travel, and a spring rate higher than normal, but generally somewhere in the middle ground of stock spring rates and tarmac racing spring rates (to my knowledge anyway, persons actually involved in rallying will no doubt have a greater understanding...).
Body roll isn't such an issue for rally drivers as gravel generally doesn't allow the generation of cornering G's to make it become important (they will start going sideways in most cases before that  ). I'm guessing that body role will become evident on higher grip surfaces such as tarmac...
Due to the low level of traction offered by gravel swaybars generally are pretty useless as well to my understanding... (sway bars are good at controlling body role...?)
What I'm kinda getting to is that I don't think a rally setup will be fantastic on the road, and you could prbly go better paths (unless you are making a rally car...). And I think the body role (high center of gravity, due to higher springs for more suspension stroke) would make drifting a bit of a non event (not to mention the spring rates being on the soft side...). Bear in mind tho, I haven't read a proper book on suspension geometry so I might be quite out of line (me puts it on list of things to do )!
If your thinking you can get a set of rally springs cheap, I'd steer away from it Why not (as charles suggested get some lowered springs (heck they aren't that expensive!), new shocks to match them and some new bushes (lower control arms!) and then fine tune with swaybars? (maybe get a rear swaybar straight away, because I think TA22's don't have a rear swaybar from factory!!!!). Oh and good tyres can have a massive effect on handling!
(ps sorry for the essay!)
Cheers
Wilbo
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suspension question
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