Pro-touring 65' C-10

[Super73]

DJ,

I'd call what we have a trailing arm suspension. I guess you could call a 3-link that as well.



Ack... Moving your panhard bar up and down is not really a way to tune suspension. You should almost always have your PH bar as close to axel center as possible. It should also be as long as possible. Adjusting the mounting point of your suspension links is how you change instant center, antisquat, antidive. You should be using spring rates and antiroll bars to compensate for antiroll.




Pharmd,

Do yourself a favor, go pick up Suspension Engineering by Herb Adams. He goes in to the different basic suspension setups, how they work, also goes through spring rates ect..

Another great thing in my collection is Dave Morgans DVD about building Drag car chasis. Given it's not geared for turning corners, but there are still some basics that he covers that really compound what Herb Adams Talks about. He also goes in to some things Herb doesn't that I feel are very inportant for suspension tuning. Such as shock/spring placement and the affects of leverage ratio.