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Once you understand the theory, you realize that there are many ways to deal with pre-load. The easiest is just to have adjustable drop links. It is even easy to convert a later-style factory rear bar to adjustable and use adjustable drop links. All kinds of ways to be clever.

Yeah that Puhn book is a reference-- I kept my copy in the "reading room" (bathroom) for about a decade.

The car on the cover has huge local significance as the Garretson-Barbour crew ran many of those 935's out of Mountain View at their place on or near Old Middlefield Road. Many of my friends volunteered on that team or worked on that racing team.

And in an interesting coincidence, a fellow Dartmouth alumn owns a 935 in that livery. He is a former Atlantic and IndyCar driver.