C3 Coil-overs
Team Owner
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Smile, it's just the internet.
Looks nice, but I bet it's jittery as hell. That untriangulated shock mount in the center sees huge loads and transfers alot of motion between wheels. I bet it breaks inside a year on the road. Two more tubes running from the center to each main would help TONS.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Vernon British Columbia
St. Jude Donor '05
First C3 General Poster!
4-links are EXTREMELY reccommended and well used in the custom truck arena, especially when bagged and C-notched. Its an incredibly strong and durable setup, also alows for the laying of rail...which is the height of baggedome. In any event, having had a bagged setup, I think to do it to a Corvette would be quite impractical given the frame characteristics along with the fact its already a very low car. The bagging process would be...unfortunate...to say the least. Its possible, but so is straping a jet engine to the luggage rack. Point being I dont think youll get any benefit and a LOT of drivability issues from bagging a vette.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Feb 2004
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From: largo florida
Originally Posted by CGGorman
This would be real easy to implement:
Drifting
Joined: Feb 2002
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From: Berlin
Originally Posted by lostpatrolman
I thought it is best to locate the springs/shocks out as far as possible. Wouldnt you need extremely high spring rates and get a pretty bouncy ride with those coilovers so far inward?
The Carrera GT, F50, and a few other extreme exotics have a pushrod suspension, but these are hardly street cars. The F50 at least has no real bushings to speak of. Also, just because it looks the same does not mean that putting one of these suspensions on will make your car handle anything like an F50. These setups will be much more sensitive to design details than the usual ones.
Anyways, I don't think coil-overs are really useful for a car unless it is raced, or the owner just happens to enjoy taking the suspension apart every month (norval). Once you have the right setup, leave it alone.
