Fmiser wrote: > rumor has it that David wrote: > >> A danger in this type of suspension is if the camber angle becomes too >> extreme the contact patch can get very small as the tire rides up on the >> edge of its tread. This was part of the reason Corvairs (which also had >> swing-axle rear suspensions) had such squirrelly handling. Large >> amounts of positive camber are especially dangerous because the axle can >> try to tuck under the car under heavy cornering loads. > > Just for the sake of complete information, it was only the early > Corvairs (1960 to 1964) that had a swing axle. From 1965 to 1969 they > had dual-joint half-shafts.
Yeah...typically for GM, the model was killed off right about the time it was threatening to turn into a decent vehicle. ;)
