<VV> Re: EM handling

djtcz@comcast.net djtcz@comcast.net
Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:19:37 +0000


> To: virtualvairs@corvair.org 
> Subject: School me on Swing Axles 
> 
> Wow. I just read chapter one of "that book" and now I've 
> got some concerns about EM handling - so, what all needs to 
> be done to turn an EM into a corner carver, ride quality be 
> damned? (We'll handle turning the Boxer 6 into a fire- 
> breather next!) 
> 
A camber compensator helps a ton.

Stirling Moss said that to make the swing axle Mercedes handle he learned to accelerate whenever the back end started to misbehave.  I think he said an MD engineer told him to try it.