Four Link question

[mginnett]

Originally Posted by Tom Goldman

What you're describing is called a swing arm type suspension. ......this works well for hi HP door cars and dragsters. ..it really limits the amount of lateral rotation at the lower bars. It can hurt the performance of a car without enough horsepower.........I've completely discarded the use of wishbones on the bracket and Super class cars I build and just use a conventional diagonal bar with 3/4 x5/8 heims and an anti roll bar.
...Tom

What kind of problems were you experiencing with wishbones? What kind of horsepower would be required to make a swing arm effective? This project looks to be headed towards about 800 HP low 9 / high 8 second ride. From the nature of your comments it sounds like I would be best off with a diagonal link. Thank you for taking time to comment.

Michael Ginnett
IHRA 566
Anchorage, Alaska