I have been looking at the way various manufacturers set up their suspensions and have been trying to figure out why I am having so much problems with my front suspension.
I have copied the corvette C5 suspension geometry exactly but this makes the front of the lower control arms very low (2" below bottom of the pan). When I look at the way every other replica is set up, the control arms appear to be almost perfectly parallel to the ground. The C5 both upper and lower control arms are angled away from each other at the front by about 2" each from highest to lowest points.
What is the purpose of the arms being at that angle? I always thought it was anti-dive but if no one else has it, how do you deal with anti-dive. If I decrease that angle at the front it will make me alot more comfortable but I also want the handling to be the best it can be.
If I just raise the whole front suspension, I run into fitment issues.
Any one have any thoughts? Changeing to the older style suspension is one I have considered but dont really like the idea. I have read some books and looked on the net and even have an analyzing program that I downloaded a demo for but trying to determine real world effect is hard.
thanks for any help
I have copied the corvette C5 suspension geometry exactly but this makes the front of the lower control arms very low (2" below bottom of the pan). When I look at the way every other replica is set up, the control arms appear to be almost perfectly parallel to the ground. The C5 both upper and lower control arms are angled away from each other at the front by about 2" each from highest to lowest points.
What is the purpose of the arms being at that angle? I always thought it was anti-dive but if no one else has it, how do you deal with anti-dive. If I decrease that angle at the front it will make me alot more comfortable but I also want the handling to be the best it can be.
If I just raise the whole front suspension, I run into fitment issues.
Any one have any thoughts? Changeing to the older style suspension is one I have considered but dont really like the idea. I have read some books and looked on the net and even have an analyzing program that I downloaded a demo for but trying to determine real world effect is hard.
thanks for any help