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Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal
^ Bryan great question and one of the reasons I picked Ron's 3 link design as his are parallel. Early on I sent Ron web pics of the LD design. Ron pointed out that the angle of the LCAs would induce rear roll steer: good for rotating the rear on an autoX, not so good for high speed corners. Further, the higher speed the more roll steer induced. Now, I'm no expert but I'm thinking ideally that's not what I'd want. Better IMO to put in a rear suspension that keeps the rear planted as best as possible, tune the front for turn in and mid corner balance and let the rear compliment it. Obviously everything else plays into it (shocks, sways, balance and tuning), but that's what made sense to me.
I really like the LD fit and finish, but also think Ron's design is an improvement.
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There was a huge thread (2002) on CC when Mark was doing his design and they acutally angled the lower links uphill to counter act the roll steer. There was a bunch of adjustiblity with the set up.
I believe it was discussed that it was optimum to run the link parallel to keep the car going straight.