britishcarfreak
Jedi Hopeful
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The early spitfire handling problems were of course partly solved by the swing spring etc of the later cars. I don't have access to that stuff and was wondering how to improve the handling of my fixed spring mk1. I've heard of camber compensators and underslung bars but don't really know any specifics.
I figured that there must be an easy way to mount a sway bar across the chassis and onto the radius arm rods to kind of link the left and right wheels together and thus reduce the likelyhood of one wheel tucking up.
Can anyone tell me why this wouldn't work? It surely can't be as easy as I think because surely the factory would have done that in the first place. I understand that a sway bar essentially brings independant suspension back to being like a live axle but who cares if it loses a bit of flexibility in return for more predictable handling on the edge?
I figured that there must be an easy way to mount a sway bar across the chassis and onto the radius arm rods to kind of link the left and right wheels together and thus reduce the likelyhood of one wheel tucking up.
Can anyone tell me why this wouldn't work? It surely can't be as easy as I think because surely the factory would have done that in the first place. I understand that a sway bar essentially brings independant suspension back to being like a live axle but who cares if it loses a bit of flexibility in return for more predictable handling on the edge?