Thread: Anti Dive
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Old 01-30-08, 01:15 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Re: Anti Dive

Let's assume that both A arms are located on a horizontal plane on the chassis. If they are mounted on a narrowing tub, as they were on the original, the outboard ends of the A arms will translate backwards under compression (assuming ride height set so that the lower A arm is nearly horizontal) . The upper A arm, due to its shorter effective length, will have greater angularity to its movement for a given compression displacement, and I believe it will translate backwards further than the lower A arm, which would effectively rotate the upright top towards the back. Which should give it some anti Dive, though I suspect a rather minimal amount.
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