re: GTV6 roll center, Zat "dive limiter"

[Alan Lambert <lechefgerard@domain.elided>]

Well, if the roll center is above ( I think ) the trunk floor, then the
floor would have to go up, and the dive limiter (a very silly device in
my opinion) would keep the floor from moving up.--at least until
something bent or broke.

--- Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided> wrote:
> This may be a stupid question, but it's been bothering me all week: 
> Tom Zat claims his "dive limiter" (which, for those of you that don't
> 
> know, is a limiting doodad that connects the center pivot on the 
> Watts linkage to the trunk floor) also limits roll.  What I've been 
> wondering is if, while keeping the center of gravity closer to the 
> centerline of the car's track width, might it end up making the car 
> roll more?  If I'm completely nuts, please tell me what I'm missing. 
> It wouldn't surprise me if the Watts link would prevent that from 
> happening, but I'm not sure, and this seems like an appropriate time 
> to ask, or at least as appropriate as any.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe Elliott
> 
> At 9:07 AM -0500 11/20/01, alfa-digest wrote:
> >Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:45:07 -0800 (PST)
> >From: James Montebello <jamesm@domain.elided>
> >Subject: Re: gtv-6 rear roll center
> >
> >Putting aside the merits (or lack thereof) of lowering the rear roll
> >center on a GTV6, actually doing so would not be easy.  It's defined
> by
> >the location of the center pivot on the Watts linkage, so that would
> have
> >to be lowered.  You'd really have to lower the side pivots, too, by
> the
> >same amount, to preserve the geometry of the linkage.  While this
> would be
> >possible, the fabrication required would be very difficult, and
> would add
> >a good bit of weight to the very back of the car.
> >
> >james montebello
> >84 gtv6
> >74 berlina
> 
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