Hot Rods Engineering Question

I was at the annual Langley Cruise In today and I saw a front suspension that I need explained. Ratish Rod but with nice welding and sheet metal work on the interior but the front suspension has me puzzled. I believe it had a transverse front leaf spring but the shocks were mounted parallel to each other with about 4-6" between them in the centre of the axle. Now I'm no engineer but I thought the shocks were to help dampen each side of the axle and I found it hard when l seeing this set-up to understand how it would work. It seems that if one side went up the dampening would be actuated at the centre of the axle causing the other side to be affected. Educate me please!

 

Pictures would help.

 

Pics for sure

 

If I were to guess, I would say lever/knee action set up. Like some of the Indy style cars.

 

As an aerospace engineer I can definitively say that I have no idea without seeing it.

I hope this helps.

 

My roadster has torsion bars and arms opposite to the shocks. s My roadster has torsion bars and arms opposite the active arm to the shocks.

 

I’d agree about the lever/knee action is probably to get them hidden to an extent. The lever ratio would set the shock rate. BUT without pictures it’s very hard to say what is exactly going on.


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Well I don't take pics of Rodents but now I wish I had. MThey weren't hidden in any way right up front no the top were bout halfway rad. Maybe one of our local members took a pic today and post or maybe I'll see it again and make sure I take a pic. As far as I'm concerned it was a rather weird setup.

 

Pictures would be awesome to see how it was setup.
Rat rodders tend to do quite of bit of nonsense to their cars, including weird/useless suspension setups.
Seems to be part of their gimmick.

 

Gotta a picture from the front?

 

See an earlier post. I might try to sketch it.