[DML] Re: Front Suspension Compliance
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[DML] Re: Front Suspension Compliance



If you did read my words, you will note the irony in it.
I love Ed's LCAs and the closing plate on the LCA's bottom make the LCA stronger than ever (at least at a weight price), but that's easily accepted.

Welmoed.


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@...> wrote:
>
> I don't remember seeing anyone saying Ed's brackets were bad.
> 
> At some point a few months ago, I mentioned that if all LCA flexibility forward/aft was removed it may be a problem because the end of the ARB travels in an arc.  This is something that was posted to DMCTalk and credited to Mike Loasby.  It was a CONCERN, that does not mean I think ARB mounts will fail on cars with Ed's brackets.
> 
> Although Martin has offered some alternatives to Ed's solution, and talks about designing his own, I don't think he has predicted any failures either.
> 
> The so-called "attacks" are being fabricated.  They do not exist.  
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 3/12/12, Welmoed <welmoedj@...> wrote:
> 
> > From: Welmoed <welmoedj@...>
> > Subject: [DML] Re: Front Suspension Compliance
> > To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Monday, March 12, 2012, 11:31 AM
> > I have those "damn" LCA braces (as
> > one could call them) from Ed.
> > They're on my car ever since I brought it over from the
> > USA.
> > I also "stiffened" the LCA by closing the bottom with a
> > welded plate.
> > 
> > The handling of the car has been so much improved and the
> > effects of hard braking (the car behaving like a young buck)
> > making the front almost incontrolably moving sideways is
> > entirely over.
> > 
> > I also discussed replacing the LCA by a triangular type like
> > the UCA.
> > Ed's first remark was that the front strut towers and frame
> > probably would not be up to the forces without
> > re-inforcement.
> > 
> > My 2 pence on the subject.
> > Do we eventually need a referee?
> > 
> > Welmoed.
> > 
> >
>




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