I was daydreaming at work the other day (sat in one of those meetings where you end up switching off and gawping out the window).
I started thinking about suspension mods that I wanted to do to the car, and couldn't help but feel that other than the front wheel drive issue, one of the other big limitations of handling is the solid beam rear axle. The new mutlilink cars have far better handling, and this got me sketching rear beams and wondering whether you could design or develop a rear beam configuration that would mimic multi link suspension by creating something that in its design shape looked similar but had flexi bushing / pivots that would allow more controlled rear end handling.
I know it would be a costly exercise, as the design requirements would have to give consideration to for things like the exhaust passing through, but does anyone on here know if it would be feasible to build a custom rear axle beam that didn't rely on basic material flex and actually had a controlled linkage design?
I started thinking about suspension mods that I wanted to do to the car, and couldn't help but feel that other than the front wheel drive issue, one of the other big limitations of handling is the solid beam rear axle. The new mutlilink cars have far better handling, and this got me sketching rear beams and wondering whether you could design or develop a rear beam configuration that would mimic multi link suspension by creating something that in its design shape looked similar but had flexi bushing / pivots that would allow more controlled rear end handling.
I know it would be a costly exercise, as the design requirements would have to give consideration to for things like the exhaust passing through, but does anyone on here know if it would be feasible to build a custom rear axle beam that didn't rely on basic material flex and actually had a controlled linkage design?