First, I must point out that I drove the Spitfire to work today top-
down. 'Twas a cold ride home but oh so satisfying! I'd forgotten
just how rev'y the engine was, and how much farther apart 2nd and 3rd
gears are compared to the GT6. I got sorta' used to the extra
torque. And you know, when
On 1 Nov 2006 at 17:21, Gosling, Richard wrote:
> ..."However breaking that leaf will remove *all* the roll stifffness
> from the rear"...
>
> Not exactly - unless you manage to break the bottom leaf on BOTH sides
> of the diff. If you just break it one side, the bottom leaf will push
> down on
At 05:52 PM 11/1/2006, M D Nugent wrote:
I agree that the front springs will have a dramatic effect on lean to
the side (both front and rear), but something else also needs to work
correctly for a level chassis - your (front) antisway bar. They
seldom
loose their resilience, but the bushings t
One more thing no one has pointed out - don't discount the dynamic
aspects of the rear suspension. Proper toe angles will cause the rear
to "pick up" considerably when driving, and turning into a parking
space will cause the rear to sit at all sorts of weird angles.
Backing up really drops the
e that was done after he
was no longer working for Triumph.
Joe
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Subject: Re: early/late rear sp
In a message dated 11/1/2006 6:58:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Anyway...the reason I have a Swing spring in my Rotoflex setup, for one, is
because it is in the GT6 competition prep manual as a very effective system
to switch your MK2 to, and I can attest that it in
RE: early/late rear springs, was sagging rear/advice
Come on Joe - I know you want to sell camber compensators but telling
someone who wants simply to replace a sagging spring with a whole new setup
is hardly cost effective :-) He's not looking to autox, just fix a sagging
spring problem.
Come on Joe - I know you want to sell camber compensators but telling
someone who wants simply to replace a sagging spring with a whole new setup
is hardly cost effective :-) He's not looking to autox, just fix a sagging
spring problem. Besides, if he has the longer axles, unless you have a
longe
I agree that the front springs will have a dramatic effect on lean to
the side (both front and rear), but something else also needs to work
correctly for a level chassis - your (front) antisway bar. They seldom
loose their resilience, but the bushings that hold the bar in place do
decompose over t
..."However breaking that leaf will remove *all* the roll stifffness
from the rear"...
Not exactly - unless you manage to break the bottom leaf on BOTH sides
of the diff. If you just break it one side, the bottom leaf will push
down on the side that isn't broken, but not on the side that is, so t
Nolan wrote that:
> the swing spring does in fact have a fixed leaf...
> Break that one leaf and you have a tremendous impact
> on the way the rear of the car sits.
However breaking that leaf will remove *all* the roll stifffness from the rear.
Or to put it another way, even more than it was bef
Sorry guys, I've been following this string for a few days now and I'll just
drop in a thought about front/rear springs.
I don't want to fan any flames, just add a casual observation
Years ago when I installed my Monroe air adjustable shocks, I did so after
installing brand new TriumphTune Fast R
now.
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From: "Dennis Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: early/late rear springs, was sagging rear/advice
Interesting discussion to say the least! In case you guys have lost track
of where this started, I posed the original query re what to do ab
t: 01 November 2006 05:43
To: 'Dennis Reese'; spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: early/late rear springs, was sagging rear/advice
Let's see if I can summarize the discussion:
1. Andy suggests the possibility of using the GT6 spring, but Paul
disagrees.
2. I suggested that while
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Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:20 PM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: early/late rear springs, was sagging rear/advice
Interesting discussion to say the least! In case you guys have lost
track of where this started, I posed the original que
Interesting discussion to say the least! In case you guys have lost
track of where this started, I posed the original query re what to do
about my sagging rear end (the spit!). I am continually impressed by
the depth of knowledge about these cars by the members of this list
and whenever I've so
On 31 Oct 2006 at 21:17, Rarebits wrote:
> What Americans would call the driveshaft, we Brits are more likely
> to call the propshaft.
Hah! A propshaft hold the propeller on an airplane (or if you
prefer, an aeroplane :-), which that's what we would have been flying
with before the invention o
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> > However, this has no (well, a negligibly small) effect on
> > camber, because the wheel is not fixed to the suspension
> > upright; the wheel is always perpendicular t
Gosling, Richard asserted:
> However, this has no (well, a negligibly small) effect on
> camber, because the wheel is not fixed to the suspension
> upright; the wheel is always perpendicular to the
> driveshaft.
Not to put too fine a point on it (which I'll do anyway), but you mean
halfshaft or a
Nope, ALL springs for the Spitfires (and GT6) are the same distance eye to
eye - the longer axles require different radius rod mounting at the body
(now that they have different angles for the radius rod mounting), they are
now in a different position (angle) since that they have moved outward -
th
Doc,
Your misunderstanding is in assuming that the angle of the wheel is
related to the angle of the suspension upright, that connects between
the hub and the spring eye.
The suspension upright will change angle depending on the spring length.
However, this has no (well, a negligibly small) effec
--- Joe Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . .
> The longer axles put a greater load on the weaker springs . . . you
> can eliminate the problem by replacing the spring with a fixed
> spring from an earlier (Mk1-3) Spit. . . .
I think we may have been through this before, but I'm still not getti
--- "Gosling, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Doc,
> Your misunderstanding is in assuming that the angle of the wheel is
> related to the angle of the suspension upright, . . . the wheel is
> not fixed to the suspension upright . . .
That's what I keep forgetting - the trunion allows the up
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