Inboard suspension

[Pavel]

Thanks again John,

that seems like a good setup. I'm going to try and put it all into cad and get some dimensions for the extra tubes needed. If it all appears to fit together, I'll share it on here!

[Coozer]

I'd be interested in a rear inboard design. Anyone considered that or have a design?

Steve

[Pavel]

Coozer, I'm looking at various packaging options at the rear at the moment, but they all will take a bit of work.. I'm struggling to package 13" dampers above the diff.

I will post up my sketches once I finish. CADing takes a while for me!

Pavs

[Davey]

Perhaps of some interest (or not) I saw a 1970s race car at the weekend with inboard rear suspension consisting of Hydrolastic suspension units, probably off an Austin 1800 from the look of them, it was called an MG liquid suspension system but from what I could see they were standard hydrolastic units but instead of being hydraulicly (sp?) connected they were independent with a simple schrader valve on each rear unit so you could alter the hydraulic pressure and therefore the spring rate. I'll see if I can find a photo.

D.

[Davey]

Found it! Here it is:

D.

[Pavel]

Very interesting! and would certainly help from a packaging perspective. However, don't they still need damping? Then where do you put the long dampers?