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I love seeing homebuilt cars, but hate seeing all the design errors in them. Even that Volvo Roadster has a pretty big one- If you look at the photo of the ohlins dampers, they are held in single shear with the rocker- that's a no-no.
And in the first car in Milt's post- the front dampers go into the middle of the lower control arms. I understand the simplicity of directly actuated dampers, and the resulting motion ratio that is necessitated, but that placement of the lower damper mount on the control arm puts a huge bending moment on it. Either it should be able to terminate into the lower outboard control arm node, or be a pushrod actuated damper. Not terminate in the middle and gusseted like hell. It may last forever (due to the huge gussets and overly heavy mounts) but it's still not proper.
Sorry, I design race cars for a living.
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