msturg
+1y
I'm mentally leaning towards that direction honestly because I don't want to have to try and talk djm or belltech into making my prototype spindle. It's going to come down to my customer survey which should be up and running in the next couple of days. We have to base our design around what the customer wants.
I'll be posting up here for opinions from all of the ssm guys.
Here's my problem with a small spindle, but again still need to research the geometry. If you use a very small spindle that will pull the upper and lower arms together (if that makes sense. This causes a couple of problems in my mind. For one, now this means that in order to lay out, your lower control arm has to rise even farther in order to lay out the crossmember which means possible large notching of the frame. I guess this can be avoided by designing the lower arm to start out flat and then bend up very quickly.
Now my next problem is the lower control arm parallel to the ground problem. Is it true that for best ride quality the lower control arm should be parallel with the ground at ride height? If so you would have to ride theoretically pretty high to be even close to that principle.
IDK, I have a thousand ideas running through my mind.