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Originally Posted by atomicjoe23
I'm gonna have to do some motion analysis to see if what I am visualizing is incorrect. . .might take me a little while because I'm just getting into SW's, but I will make a 5-link and then I will make a plated 5-link (if you wanna call that a 4-link that's fine with me. . .I don't care) and see how much the motion is restricted and how much travel you lose.
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Once you put it in SW you will understand my point better. The "4 link" version will not be able to move.
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Originally Posted by atomicjoe23
I don't think the statement "you'll be lucky to have more than 1" of travel" is accurate. . .
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That's true, it's not accurate because there will be 0 travel.
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Originally Posted by atomicjoe23
Minibajaman. . .care to share the dimension of the links in your 5-link set-up? Just give me center of pivot point)-to-(center of pivot point) of each of the links and make sure you let me know the distances between them. . .if it's not to much work and you don't mind
. . .what's your travel limited to? bump and droop
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I don't have the exact dimensions handy but my personal buggy is very simple. Trailing links are about 24" long, pivots about 5" apart. Toe links are about 16" long, pivots 5" apart. The upper toe link to lower toe link pivot on the frame side is 4.5" to get some camber change. Otherwise there is no funky geometry. Total travel is 13", about 4" droop travel.
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Originally Posted by atomicjoe23
That way I'm working with an actual functional set-up that is similar to what others on here will be running. . .and no one will be able to say I fudged mounting locations just to prove my point, proving my point is not my intention. . .I want to see what happens and what you gain or lose with each set-up and will share the results on this thread (don't be surprised if this takes 2 weeks or longer.
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It doesn't really matter because there is no possible practical configuration that will work in SW.