[DeTomaso] Hydraulics for Pantera - Dark Depression Sets in after Silver ...

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

You crazy Mofo Jeff!
  Okay, I hear ya on the stiffened up suspension....mine is already stiffened up...I have double adjustable shocks and ;can raise the ride height to compensate for dips at higher speed then I lose some of the benefits of getting the car down low at higher sustained speeds.....I also think I could stiffen the suspension to the point of where I am just bending quarter panels like I did before when I was running heavier springs....and as I recall my ride height was a lot higher then then it is now. I am thinking what John and Larry's ideas  mentioned earlier on either something like the Praxis air based suspension or something we can adapt over the winter.....if I can't have it done by this winter and ready to road test by January I don't want it...I want to be back on the road.
  P.S. I like the TPR fight song too! ;-]>
   
  md 

JJD1010 at aol.com wrote:
  Seems to me that issue is not to raise up but to stiffen up when needed so 
that you don't bottom out. Benefit is that you keep the aerodynamics and the 
alignment and you can quickly switch back and forth. 

Many years ago, cars were getting "active" suspensions that would read the 
road ahead and adjust the spring/shock rates accordingly. And there are cars out 
there today with "adaptive" suspensions that vary the spring/shock rates by 
selecting "comfort" or "sport" mode. That would be the concept but would have 
to be adapted to radically adjust the stiffness when the dips were coming. 

Issues? Is this really a workable solution. Stiffening the chassis and 
suspension mounting points to handle the increased load. Testing to see if you would 
go airborn. Adapting the control mechanism to get the stiffness required and 
to have it activated/deactivated in a timely manner. Tire loads. A button on 
the steering wheel would be my suggestion for activating it. I'm sure there are 
more.

Google adaptive suspensions.


This reminds me. Do we have a Team Pantera Racing fight song? Here's my 
suggestion:

I want to be an open road racer
I want to live the life of danger
I want to go O R R (got to get the meter/beat/pauses 
right on this one)
I want to beat some newer cars (newer? need help here)

I forget the next verse. That's the best I could come up with that still 
rhymes. Please feel free to make appropriate changes.

I propose that all ORR Panteras have loudspeakers and that they blast this 
out in synch at any pre or post race gatherings and at the starting line so as 
to intimidate the competition and to charge up the adrenilin level of our 
racers.

Whaddaya think?

Jeff
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