The comments on the stealth cars was what interested me the most. He stated that those cars were really the prototypes to the B3 and B4 and that they learned about equal arm lengths on those cars and where to mount the shocks on the arms. I compared my B3 and B4 parts and found that the suspension geometry between them is in fact the same right down to where the shocks mount on the arms. Neat! The B3 rear arms, B4 rear arms, and B44 rear arms are the exact same distance from hinge pin to hinge pin and the shock mounting holes are in the same locations between them as well. The front arms of the B3 and B4 are the same way. Same length pin to pin with the same shock mounting locations. The B44 front arms are close but are slightly shorter due to packaging constraints. A B3 should still be a very competitive car since the suspension geometry is essentially the same as the B4 with some minor tweaks. I am custom building a car using many of these parts but that's for another thread.
Cliff's comments about the front of the 91 world's stealth car were really cool. With the front arms reversed so they were swept forwards and the accompanying mods necessary to do it, they gained 30 additional seconds per battery pack since the front end wasn't bottoming out. Back then an extra 30 seconds added to a battery that would live for less than 5 minutes was huge. It was neat that they first ran the first car the day after the Nats event in Detroit and found it to handle wonderfully but when they went back and molded arms and all of the components that the car no longer worked when they got them to the World's. It's funny how material can make that huge of a difference even if they seem comparable.
If any of you guys haven't listened to this podcast or any of them for that matter, check them out. Some of them are pretty neat.
http://radioimpound.podbean.com/
