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[firstgencrx]

Roll center is my biggest peve. Lowering our cars any ammount just destroys it, like most macpherson strut cars, and then on top of that the geometry just gives you more and more positive camber as you compress the suspension.

In my calculations, the front roll center gets much lower when the front is lowered. Just an ugly fact in the design of the front Mcpherson style suspension, the roll center changes height a lot with suspension travel. The rear stays pretty much the same because of the straight axle design, but it's pretty high making the difference between the front and back a sort of steep downward forward roll center for the whole car. So are you talking about the roll center being too low? or too high? Because I measure mine up front at about an inch off the ground with all stock parts running a 5" ground clearance. I can share the math if you like.

With some stiff T bars, the travel gets so limited, I don't see it really being much of a problem. Of course, I'm still learning, so take what I think with a grain of salt.

David

[Aren D.]

sweet I cant wait to see your crossmember when its done

[Christ]

You should be making a "parts I didn't use" thread too... just so we can all see the trial and error that went into this project. I believe it would add some appreciation for the actual amount of work and trouble you're going to just to entertain us.

P.S. I say "Just to entertain us" because this is quite entertaining... and given the time frame you have to work on it (whenever you can find a minute) and the amount of time between posts, it seems like a sitcom LOL.

Add to that the fact that it seems like you're turning around on yourself more than you're adding to your project sometimes, and it's VERY entertaining... you're on the same level as Seinfeld now!

[firstgencrx]

You should be making a "parts I didn't use" thread too... just so we can all see the trial and error that went into this project. I believe it would add some appreciation for the actual amount of work and trouble you're going to just to entertain us.

P.S. I say "Just to entertain us" because this is quite entertaining... and given the time frame you have to work on it (whenever you can find a minute) and the amount of time between posts, it seems like a sitcom LOL.

Add to that the fact that it seems like you're turning around on yourself more than you're adding to your project sometimes, and it's VERY entertaining... you're on the same level as Seinfeld now!

Here is how project Zippy actually started before I realized I could never finish it. So I scaled it back:
http://www.redpepper...e...9&hl=RexRod

David

[Christ]

Here is how project Zippy actually started before I realized I could never finish it. So I scaled it back:
http://www.redpepper...e...9&hl=RexRod

David

Read it all quite a while ago... then went "WTF" at the end.

It was like a bad pr0n... all worked up, and no money shot at the end. Sorry, that's a relatively off-color reference, but it's all I could come up with.

Then, this came along, and I went... OH. I see what you've done there. *_*

[rpr]

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