Background: While getting my frame is on hold due to health issues, I decided to play around with the CAD system and see if I could come up with a frame configuration with fewer compromises and closer to the car I originally envisioned.
Towards that end, to get the main rails as low as I want, I'm playing with the idea of running the R&P tie rod ends and bellows through a sleeved hole in the main rails. That places the front crossmember parallel with the dropped center section of my tube axle. And since the front axle is a spring-over configuration, there will only be about 2" clearance between the axle and the crossmember. In that 2"s is where the Panhard bar will have to live. The good news is that since I have a 4-bar setup to locate the axle, and the travel is short, there would be very little fore and aft movement of the axle. I've worked out the mounting of the frame end of the Panhard bar.
The problem is the axle end. A mount on top of the axle will hit the spring above. Since the axle has a 5" drop, a mount under has potential ground clearance issues. This leaves behind the axle. So far I've not come up with a way to mount it behind that keeps it tight enough to the axle. Has anyone seen a mount that might work?
Towards that end, to get the main rails as low as I want, I'm playing with the idea of running the R&P tie rod ends and bellows through a sleeved hole in the main rails. That places the front crossmember parallel with the dropped center section of my tube axle. And since the front axle is a spring-over configuration, there will only be about 2" clearance between the axle and the crossmember. In that 2"s is where the Panhard bar will have to live. The good news is that since I have a 4-bar setup to locate the axle, and the travel is short, there would be very little fore and aft movement of the axle. I've worked out the mounting of the frame end of the Panhard bar.
The problem is the axle end. A mount on top of the axle will hit the spring above. Since the axle has a 5" drop, a mount under has potential ground clearance issues. This leaves behind the axle. So far I've not come up with a way to mount it behind that keeps it tight enough to the axle. Has anyone seen a mount that might work?