Looks to me that we are talking about a street ride and a track ride on a
car that standing back looking at it, isn't the smoothest riding thing on
the road to start with .
By the fact of putting ones butt in the seat you assume many things, the
ride smoothness is one of the majors. Track or street these things ride
HARD.
If you need smooth ride with cornering buy a BMW.
It's all relative, a fellow once said to me "it's like being a little bit
pregnant, THERE AIN'T NO SUCH THING "
Just my .02
-----Original Message-----
From: Nolan Penney [mailto:npenney@mde.state.md.us]
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:58 AM
To: bill.birney@bigpond.com; spitlist@gte.net; clshore@yahoo.com
Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net; nugentmd@gte.net
Subject: Re: Swing spring / camber compensator
I've not seen a street Spitfire that didn't have the shock absorber actually
limiting the amount of droop in the rear suspension, with the spring still
pushing down. It's to be expected on a street car, where you want a softer
ride. The softer spring needing more compression travel to build up
sufficient force to hold the car up at ride height. If a soft street spring
was dearched sufficiently to no longer push the rear wheels down to extreme
positive camber, the car would collapse to the pavement when sitting on its
tires. A race car with an extremely stiff spring could well hold the wheels
up away from positive camber in a relaxed state, but the ride would be harsh
for daily driving.
>>> Carter Shore <clshore@yahoo.com> 06/13 8:16 AM >>>
Just some random comments:
>The SS works by decreasing the rear roll stiffness, and by limiting the
wheel travel on droop.
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