View Single Post
Old 12-11-2024, 03:39 PM   #562 (permalink)
freebeard
Master EcoModder
 
freebeard's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: northwest of normal
Posts: 28,990
Thanks: 8,226
Thanked 8,999 Times in 7,433 Posts
Trophy trucks weigh as much as two sedans.

What I found interesting was the reason they fly so well has to do with the angle between the rear tire contact patch and the pivot point of the trailing arm (really a beam), which is four feet long. The more acute the angle the better.

The shocks are also more complex than I'd known, with shock cooling reservoirs and bypass tubes.
__________________
.
.
Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster

________________
.
.
Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense,
and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature.
-- Sabine Hossenfelder
  Reply With Quote