i found out how the Boss T/A cars fit such big rear wheels

[bnickel 10,004]

i found out how the Boss T/A cars fit such big rear wheels. they trimmed the leaf springs, actually it's more like they cut them in half

 

 

http://forums.corner-carvers.com/showthread.php?t=25780

 

this is from the aussie T/A car driven by Allan Moffatt. i know there were a few people wondering how they did it. 70vert and MDindestin for sure were wanting to know

[70vert 17]

bnickel, thanks. As Napoleon Dynamite would say, "That's flippin' sweet!"

 

I thought I had a cornercarvers login, but I have to wait to download the photos, but the article is enough. By "notched" it means the LCA is running up into the subframe which has a notch cut into it? For some reason even though I have a login I can't view the photos.

 

this really caught my eye:

 

"This was confirmed during a special track test conducted by the US Road and Track magazine at the time. One of the factory cars driven by George Follmer covered the standing quarter mile in a scant 12.9 seconds, generated just over one g of cornering force and almost halved the Boss 302 road car's 130km/h braking distance from 90 metres to just 54!"

 

dang!

[bnickel 10,004]

unfortunately there aren't any pics of the front end in the post yet, but hopefully the guy who posted it wil add some more. you do have to logged in to view the pics, i can't even view them unless i'm logged in

[70vert 17]

I still can't see how the front suspension pickups are notched into there. Or is the whole front subframe moved up? I still can't get over how they were able to pull over 1g in that car, I guess a lot of rubber and a low stance do wonders for traction. Wonder what it would do in a slalom?

 

It's interesting how basic everything looks - the cockeyed rear leaf, the basic front a-arms, hard to believe. I guess if it worked, it worked . . .