Sunshine on leaf
Q I am building a ‘somewhat vintage reproduction’ track car for the Barber Road Course. It would be best compared to the Camaros and Mustangs that raced the Trans-Am circuit in 1969-’70.
The brake package and front steering / suspension is modern and very robust. However, the rear suspension is slider-mounted, 200lb/in, Chrysler-style stacked leaf springs with a Panhard (though I plan to try a composite monoleaf at some point in time).
The sliders on the rear of the springs will give me up / down and / or angular adjustment, and are within the rules. Bird cages / links and floating calipers seem unnecessarily complicated to me and are more than I want to deal with, or package on this car.
I know there are probably better ways to skin the cat, but I have always had a fascination with leaf springs and the tuning thereof (ie changing wheel rate / linearity etc. by changing mount geometry and the
