Scott Fisher writes >
>I would build them with an I-beam from the axle forward.
>This would give a rigid suspension member effect, as the I would resist
>torsion and flex in the front half of the spring. This would avoid much
>of the roll steer in stock MGBs, as well as eliminating axle tramp from
>spring windup.
If it was perfectly rigid, it would also turn your rear axle housing into the
world's biggest sway bar. I discovered this effect when I put lowering blocks
in a Cortina GT and thus took the traction bars out of parallel with the leaf
springs.
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