Wednesday 10 December 2014

1/4 Elliptical Front Suspension

After around 18 hours of research, looking at pictures, reading every tech article and forum entry I could find, I have found an ideal design for the quarter elliptical suspension that I will be using on my T.


Photos and craftsmanship courtesy of Kardude67 from the infamous H.A.M.B. Jalopy Journal forums

There we have it!! An absolutely stunning piece of engineering and design, it should even work just as good as it looks. From what I can see the builder has scratch built the upper links and the awesome spring/link mount located on the original U bolt holes on the old parallel leaf spring pads, not to mention those speed holed frame rails and lovely curvy cross member. It look as though there is a height adjustment bolt fitted through the top of the rail a la Posies 1/4 spring kit, there is also a horizontal bolt, that could well be through a spring eye, or possibly a through some machined solid stock with the bolt acting as a locator. However he has chose to do it, it doesn't change the fact that it is an incredibly aesthetically pleasing set up, and a true credit to his work