Thread: A little frame help please

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We've had this discussion on here before about who likes Panhard bars and who doesn't. It is simply that from an engineering standpoint, I am strongly opposed to a system which tries to work in dissimilar arcs. The four-bars are trying to go straight up and down and the Panhard bar is pushing and pulling the bars laterally and putting a bind on the bar fittings. It just isn't natural.

Originally posted by techinspector1
We've had this discussion on here before about who likes Panhard bars and who doesn't. It is simply that from an engineering standpoint, I am strongly opposed to a system which tries to work in dissimilar arcs. The four-bars are trying to go straight up and down and the Panhard bar is pushing and pulling the bars laterally and putting a bind on the bar fittings. It just isn't natural.

All I can say about that is every racer I've ever known spends every dime he has to find a way to out run the other guy, and I've never seen a watts linkage on a race car. speedway dont sale one that I see, and they are hard to find if you're looking for one. people don't run them on the south East coast, I don't know about anywhere else. on a round track car its just something else to break, and there are other adj. to off set any problem you might have with a pan hand bar. long trailing arms are better than short arms, but most people run the short arms for conv.