I try to race a sprite and if the suspension is okay, it should not be twitchy.
Twitchy is a 356 Porche. My sprite got twitchy twice. The first time we found
that the rear had toe out. And the second time one of the front shocks had
ceased to move more than a few degrees. I understand that it is rather common
for the rears to bend.
Doug Wilson
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From: Ulix Goettsch [SMTP:ulix@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 12:26 PM
To: David Wood
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Mine scares me, it likes the speed
David,
my Sprite was much more twitchy on teh highway before I rebuilt my front
suspension. Any play there will have you go all over the road.
Mine was mainly in the lower fulcrum pins (worn out bushings in A-arm).
Ulix
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, David Wood wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> My Frogeye likes to boot along rather well. I had thought about the 5
> spd. conversion but after what driving I had done the 4 spd with the
> 1278 (or whatever it may really be) seems to run fine. I'll get a
> better idea next summer with some more driving.
>
> What sort of scared me was how resposive the little thing was to where
> I steered it. I was in the midst of accelerating when I steered to
> avoid a rock (fair sized) in the road. It went immediately where ever I
> over corrected, nary a tire broke away. When I finally got it stopped
> and my heart started I thought to myself that that must have been the
> 'twitchiness' I had heard about with the 1/4 elliptic cars.
>
> Is this normal or a sign that maybe something else is shot. I thought
> the shocks were alright. I can drive a straight line bumpy road fine
> and the bounce test seemed alright.
>
>
> Catch you later!
>
> Fred Krampits wrote:
> >
> > Bob: I don't know how fast I was going, the tach said 5800, 4th gear of
> > a ribcase with 4.22 diff. My 1098cg wanted to go faster, my Midget's
> > suspension wanted to go faster, I just got scared.
> > --
> > Fred Krampits
> > 1963 MG Midget MK I 1098CG
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/9021/
>
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