Random Aerodynamic Oddity of the Day Thread

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

It makes sense. A traverse spring requires a wishbone or radius rods.

I didn't mean it wouldn't make sense from a technical standpoint, but come on, we're so used to see that transverse leaf-spring layout in earlier full-size Fords that anything else looks sorta out of place...

[freebeard]

Aero cartoon-styling kit on a Renault Twizy:


justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/10/ive-never-heard-of-twizy-probably.html

[Bicycle Bob]

Please call that a styling kit. It looks as useful as paint imitating woven Carbon fiber.

It is such a shame that Ford never went to using two mounting points on those transverse front leaf springs, which gives an anti-roll function.

[freebeard]

Done. I think it's a parody, something like this:



Allegedly an actual Smart car. I like the Willys traverse spring/A-arm front suspension from the 1950s.


cdn3.volusion.com/rocyq.axpdp/v/vspfiles/photos/649514-3.jpg?1510837654

[Bicycle Bob]

The formidable AC Cobra had A-arm + transverse leaf, too, but with the spring on top, still with the single mounting point, making it two quarter-elliptics in effect. All those steel springs used as locating members suffered from using the same multi-leaf design. In composites, it is easy to create a short, wide quarter-elliptic spring right where you want a hinge point, and continue out with a more rigid arm that needs no other bracing fore and aft.

[freebeard]

Two mounting points (#1103) or a single hinge (1105)?

The EMPI Camber Compensator


EMPI vs Claude's Buggies

https://356speedster.co.za/forum-top...er-compensator

[Bicycle Bob]

The EMPI Camber Compensator was the opposite of an anti-roll bar, but it helped by reducing oversteer. I never heard of an aftermarket anti-roll bar for the front of a bug, which might have been better.

[freebeard]

In the 1980s I bought front and rear anti-roll bars from a manufacturer in Beaverton, OR. I cannot at this time remember the company name.

But the front bar shipped with OEM bushings that were undersize internally and I didn't know how to drill or ream a rubber bushing so it was never installed. The 1 1/8th inch rear bar (with gas pressurized shocks and big and little tires) gave neutral handling so I never installed the front.

That was on a 1961 Type II panel van (the obligatory Dove Blue).

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Aftermarket front sway bars for Beetles were not unheard of, but they're quite unusual and expensive. But anyway, maybe converting to double A-arm would be tempting, and there are already some kits for it.

[kach22i]

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-...ures-2629.html