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Old 03-25-2019, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Jaydee View Post
Mechanically it's the easiest set up and probably the strongest. So I'm interested in the ride and handling? Thanks. JD
A 4 link will be far more tune-able than leaf spring. Moving where the links attach to the chassis and axle dramatically changes handling. Front and/or back of the links can be moved (up/down, what degree of triangulation). Also easy to swap in new spring rates with new coils.

This is all not necessarily a good thing as you can really screw up handling with a bad linkage setup if you don't know what you are doing Ask me how I know 4 links for a cobra have some design challenges as there is not a ton of room for long links, and suspension changes happen quickly with short links.
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