i want to know more about the device

[RacerX10]

you're welcome !

[TheJet-09]

Is that a small dampner/shock (black threaded body) running vertically from the chassis to the J-Bar? It might be just behind it.

[RacerX10]

The whole thing looks like somebody walked around the shop, picked up a bunch of crap laying around and started bolting it on the car

I'm dubious.

[RW57]

I am no engineer but wait I work on race cars so maybe I am. Looks like to me in simple terms it increases load on the left rear wheel as the bird cage rotates. A friend of mine talked to Chris Madden about his Longhorn and Madden told him it is hands down the best racecar he has ever sat in he could not believe a car would be that good.Now the person he told this is no johnny come lately who once built race car himself. Just thought I would throw this out there.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

I am no engineer but wait I work on race cars so maybe I am. Looks like to me in simple terms it increases load on the left rear wheel as the bird cage rotates. A friend of mine talked to Chris Madden about his Longhorn and Madden told him it is hands down the best racecar he has ever sat in he could not believe a car would be that good.Now the person he told this is no johnny come lately who once built race car himself. Just thought I would throw this out there.

But Madden doesn't have that contraption.

[fastford]

when its available for purchase, it will probably cost more than my whole car,lol. this is starting to make the one shock per corner rule look better and better..........

[Lizardracing]

Has way too many moving parts to be very reliable. It would require constant attention. Like every other part on your race car isn't already!

[fastford]

I don't know SCD, that looks like a small canister shock hooked to it to me.

[fastford]

I think your right, probably a way to adjust bite from within the car. but, wouldn't that be illegal ?

[Kromulous]

I think Stock Car Driver nailed it, cantilever birdcage. Separates the two bars, after the top bar bottoms out against the stop, and then it begins to compress the little shock contraption on the birdcage.

It Explains why JD's car's LR is hiked a foot higher than most others on the track. You can look at photos from Florence's North South and see it.

Also, get a load at how much preload that LR spring has on it, gees is it a 100lb spring or what?

[Kromulous]

Still thinking out loud here, but could then intent be to take out rear steer via the LRL bar being head to a certain drop dimension. Then separate the top bar, and allow the rear end to "over index" and create a lot of LRU bar angle, the little shock controls this indexing.


This is very interesting ! thanks for that pic.

[TS3g]

So something like this?


http://i.imgur.com/t6OCTNe.png - For full size

Green = Frame
Yellow = Trailing Rods
Cyan = Birdcage
Red = Cantilever
Orange/Yellow = Cantilever Hike Shock
Gray/Purple = Cantilever Compression Dampener
Pink = Coil-over

Obviously not drawn to exact angles/sizes/whatnot. And there's some more going on in the pic on top of the cantilever, but I can't tell what it is

[RW57]

Did not know Madden did not have that on his car.Maybe on Davenport car that's what they want you see so you won't see what is really going on.I have done this myself before to keep people from seeing what I am really doing.That'sa pretty good statement looks like a bunch of crap they had laying around and just welded it up. Two different people who saw Madden at Cleveland were telling me how Maddens car kept the nose flat all the way thru corner and down straightaways.They said there was not another car there that looked like his and it looked like his car turned with the front end and was not all dumped over on.RF That's the same thing as Davenport has done all year.I had another friend who got to measure a Longhorn bare chassis he said it not a lot different than any thing else out there.He did say though the lower a frames were different than anything else out there he said they do not flex and have extra bars thru out the chassis.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

I think you have it, TS3g. Looks like what I saw.

[25drtrkr]

Why the two heims mounted to the bottom of the birdcage? I know one is the trailing arm, but what is the other attached to? Looks like theres a bracket welded to both tubes.