Off Panhard bar

[Greg Hermann]

>Shannen,
>What you discribed is a watts link. If you are serious about a 4 link,
>depending on your application, consider instead a wishbone link. Current drag
>racers use either a diagonal link, good only for going in a straight line, or
>a wishbone setup. Contact Chassis Engineering or Art Morrison Enterprises for
>technical info. Good reading would be Herb Adams, VSE fame, "Chassis
>Engineering " from HPBooks, 1055.
>                                               Good Luck
>                                          Wayne

Or go scrounging in a boneyard that has some old Alfas. They used an upper
triangle, with two pivot points on the chassis, and a BALL joint attached
just to the left side of the pumpkin, plus two lower trailing arms.
Particularly if you replaced the chassis pivots of the triangle (rubber
stock) with bronze on steel, also if you replaced the lower rod ends with
real rod ends, they were as NICE a live rear axle setup as you could want.

Another very nice set-up was the old Rover 2000 Di Dion setup--instead of a
lateral link, they used half shafts with no slip joint, upper and lower
arms on each side, and a slip joint in the Di Dion tube.

Greg