Talk:Swing axle

Camber compensator

The leaf spring applied to the back of the corvair was sometimes refered to as a camber compensator. I think it was also refered to by this name by various after-market suppliers who offered one for the corvair before the factory started installing them as standard equipment. If anyone has a reference handy to confirm this it might be a good Idea to add this to the article(I'm fairly confident of these facts, but only from distant memories of personal experience).Romaniantruths (talk) 02:44, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Take a look at SCAT, an aftermarket parts producer. Their camber compensator springs are available to VW, Porsche and Corvair. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.48.60.10 (talk) 15:06, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Substitution

DeDion axles didn't substitute swing axles in the 60s. Mercedes-Benz, until the 1981, VW, until 2003, didn't let them go. DeDion axles have being around for much longer, before 1900, and suplanted rear swing axles on the famous "Silver Arrows" central engined Grand Prix cars during the 30s. Indeed, DeDion where the favorite setup for rear suspension on GP and other advanced race and sport cars until more sofisticated independent suspensions where perfected during the 50s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.48.60.10 (talk) 13:52, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

High rear tire pressure to avoid oversteer??

Section 1.2, third point: "low front and high rear tire pressure" to induce understeer. Can this be right? It sounds totally backwards -- high rear pressure reduces the rear grip, while low front pressure increases front grip, which should lead to oversteer, or so I should think. The whole paragraph has a single footnote, referring to Unsafe at Any Speed. I don't know if this issue -- which way the tire unbalance needed to go -- is covered in Nader's book, but in any case it would be nice to have a few words in the article giving a brief summary of why this works, if that could be done. Salaw (talk) 03:13, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Re: High rear tire pressure to avoid oversteer??

Increasing rear tire pressure stretches the tread (increasing road contact) and reduces both its deflection and sidewall deflection (thereby reducing the risk of air-out, in the case of tubeless tires), hence the rear will grip better with increased tire pressure - to a point. A ridiculously high rear tire pressure will again reduce grip from the optimum (increasing oversteer) as only the center of the tread has good contact with the road. johnr_roberts (talk) 12:40, 2 May 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.21.34.33 (talk)