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Sep 04, 2012 9:57 am
Sep 04, 2012 9:57 am
Subject: Re: De Dion / Transverse bars
Thank you David, I wasn't wasting my time after all! I had a good look at it all last night and tried to familiarise myself with the setup.
It's a fascinating bit of engineering - massive structural members - I've never seen anything like it on a car. So the transverse bars are one in front of the other - so does that mean that the aluminim trailing arm mounts are offset by around 3"?
The torsion bars are mounted part way accross to the underside of the rear seat with arms which are adjustable? I can imaging that allowing the de dion to drop too much would shatter the alloy cases - I wonder how they prevented that from happening? - I hope to find out later...
Thank you David, I wasn't wasting my time after all! I had a good look at it all last night and tried to familiarise myself with the setup.
It's a fascinating bit of engineering - massive structural members - I've never seen anything like it on a car. So the transverse bars are one in front of the other - so does that mean that the aluminim trailing arm mounts are offset by around 3"?
The torsion bars are mounted part way accross to the underside of the rear seat with arms which are adjustable? I can imaging that allowing the de dion to drop too much would shatter the alloy cases - I wonder how they prevented that from happening? - I hope to find out later...