I've seen one out of a car and it's way too big to fit easily. I was recently
contemplating a Corvette diff and even though there will need to be a
little modification to fit the transverse spring in the right place, I think it
would be a much easier fit than the Jag model. ANother benefit is
that it is much cheaper on this side of the pond. You can fine rebuilt ones in
the 500 to 600 buck range.
Joe
Barry Schwartz wrote:
>
> I was just contemplating the possible fully independent rear of my street
> rod (40 Ford truck jag style) and realized that the same setup might be
> adapted to a Spitfire, without modifying any part of the body or frame! If
> you utilized the GT6 Rotoflex rear uprights/hubs but instead of using the
> lower wishbones you would have to make up some special axle shafts. These
> would serve as the lower wishbone (while the spring as it does now serves
> as the upper wishbone). The benefit would be no sliding joint! You would
> have to modify the Rotoflex joint at the hub by removing the tri-Y and
> replacing it with a conventional u-joint (not all that difficult, I have
> already done that on mine) In fact, I could just disconnect the lower
> wishbones on mine if I just make up a special fixed length axle shafts.
> Since mine already uses larger TR6 u-joints, loading capacity of the joint
> has been increased. The only drawbacks I can see are that the hub bearings
> would be loaded more than they are now, and the very small Allen bolts (and
> smallish Spitfire u-joints, but that can be changed) would be handling all
> the side loads, but it would appear that they do that in a stock spitfire
> anyway -
> What do you all think? Am I missing something (I must be)? It seams to
> simple. The advantage is that you eliminate the sliding joint, and it's
> inherent problems. And as I mentioned no mods to the frame or bodywork. A
> much simpler change to make and fully reversible. The only down side I can
> think of Is the difference in track might not be ideal or may cause a
> slight problem when traveling from full bounce to jounce, but that already
> happens to some degree anyway, and this would be even less than what is
> already occurring. Certainly much less camber change!
>
> Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
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