Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Corvair OT
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Sun Apr 1 15:46:31 2007
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Frank,

The thought of a de Dion rear axle on a rear or mid engined car boggles 
the mind.  The tube would have to go behind the
engine and gearbox

One advantage that a de Dion has is the ability to have minute and 
repeatable adjustments of camber and caster.

Jerry

Frank Dernie wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
> the de Dion has a lot of advantages. I have looked long and hard at 
> getting one on a GP car but the number of extra links needed for 
> location get in the way of the airflow.
> On a Le Mans car it would have some clear potential still.
> The first "racing" car i drove was a Lotus 6. It had a fron swing axle 
> made from a Ford Popular (E93A) front beam axle.
> cheers
> Frank
>
>
> On 31 Mar, 2007, at 21:34, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>
>> Frank,
>>
>> There is an axle setup that had a mixed bag of advantages and 
>> disadvantages of the live and swing axles.
>> I had a DeDion axle on my 1953 Allard J2X.
>>
>> Unfortunately, Sidney Allard used a swing axle in the FRONT, with 
>> enormous positive camber.  What
>> the car needed was about zero front camber and slight negative camber 
>> in the rear.
>>
>> Jerry
>
>
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