[mickmate]

Hey Ant what about getting some projected numbers together and seeing if a good mechanics lecturer from AIT might like to look at them. Maybe even as a class project. Think about the weight, acceleration, more importantly deceleration, cornering G's etc. I think decel would be one of the more critical numbers. You're dividing force over length of arms, number of members, spacing etc. We had a couple of really keen and clever car guys when I was there that would love to crunch some numbers on that kind of stuff.