At Cadwell this weekend.



Early BEC

Was a twin of some description with an external clutch, chain drive to a gearbox, then chain to diff. Transverse leaf springs at the front and back. Notice how you can move the hubs and the leaf spring up and down the upright!

Also notice the rillly small driver!

Front suspension was a mirror image, just with steering rack instead of the prop shafts!


Cheers

Mike

what was that performing like?

Quite a cleaver suspension system, minimalist in the extreme. That tiny driver also seams to be fitting the wrong way round silly little Oompa Loompa

I saw something similar in the 80's at a hill climb. It had a vincent motor and even then was years old.

Not very fast but good fun !

Regards Mark

looks a little like corvette rear suspension only they are using the leaf spring as an upper wishbone and the vettes is isolated with a drop link and uses a multi link setuo ... would be interesting to know how the spring handles the axial loads does is distort into an S shape ?

would be a lot of bending on the spring under accleration, and your antiroll is totally linked to your spring rates! Interesting though.

Interestings not the word with cable operated drum brakes on the front!

Didn't see it run unfortunatley.

Mike