![]() ideally neither happens, most of the time squat/separation is just an artifact of working within limitations of factory suspension geometry and chassis. ![]() Squat doesnt actually create grip, its actually reducing force between the tyre and the ground - body moving down is force NOT going into the ground, it depends on the car and the tyres whether thats preferable to having the car separate (body lift up). Just allow my self enough adjustability to make any changes I might need to? I guess what I'm asking is - and I know every car is different - what would you do? The Escort seems to be pretty well proven, although it is a rally car. I don't know exactly where the centre of gravity line runs in the car, but after playing around with a 4-link calculator I'm struggling to get the IC inside the car without some quite funky arm angles.īear in mind, this is not a drag car looking for that 1/10th of a second grip off the line, so I'm not overly concerned with some squat to get grip. I've worked out that if I run the lower parallel and the top angled down 25mm at the front or 2.346°, I'll get a figure of 30% anti-squat and the IC will be about 500mm in front of the front wheel. And then some people run different length bars, or the bars mounted forward or rearward of the axle centre. Both parallel lower parallel, top angled down bottom angled up, top angled down etc. However, I have read varying warnings about running the bar angles every which way. At the moment, I've designed it as seen below:Ħ20mm is the stock length of the Gemini lower trailing arm mounting point to the axle centre, 127mm is the same as the Escort setup. I am aware that the length and angles of the arms can have significant affect on anti-squat and roll steer. In this, they run 23" arms, mounted 2.5" from the axle centre, both parallel with the ground. I'm basing it off the Escort Rally prep manual as the Gemini and Mk2 Escort share the same wheelbase. I am working on figuring out how to 4-link my Gemini and I need some guidance around arm lengths and angles.
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