This car appeared in the July 2021 issue of Practical Performance Car. (Just catching up with my reading).
It is a Midlana which is Lotus 7 type kit car that you build from a book of general design principles that can be bought.
The guy building this one chose to make the front suspension rear mountings to aim along the load axis of the wishbone instead of just having the mountings in-line. He explained that this was to reduce any bending moments.
He is obviously happy with this setup, but I don't fully understand how it works in practise. Wouldn't this result in very limited suspension travel?
The spherical joints must have to twist to take up the difference in the fact that the arms are trying to operate in different planes.
Has anyone come across this type of setup before? Just seems a lot of trouble to go to when the mountings could be made in-line to remove any articulation problems.
Edited by Pete649, 24 September 2021 - 05:07 PM.