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- Subject: Re: Live axle vs. IRS
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- Date: 14 Oct 92 03:41:54 GMT
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- References: <1992Oct05.192553.23743@i88.isc.com> <1992Oct6.034025.13839@sol.UVic.CA> <81572@ut-emx.uucp> <RRUSK.92Oct13104253@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com>
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- rrusk@ssd.csd.harris.com (Bob Rusk) writes:
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- >On 13 Oct 92 01:49:54 GMT, rodder@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jon D. Rodder) wrote:
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- >>In article <1992Oct6.034025.13839@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
- >>>If there was one thing to be changed on the '82 to '92 F-cars, it would
- >>>be to ditch the live axle and adopt a Corvette rear-end setup. Guess
- >>>we'll have to wait another ten years...
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- >>Wait until the F-cars do what the Z and Rx-7 did? I can remember when
- >>the Z and the rx7 were fairly affordable cars. Look at them today.
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- >Ummmm ... Didn't the original 240Z already have IRS? Nissan may have
- >moved the Z-cars up-market, but they didn't do it by adding IRS.
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- >--
- >--
- > Bob Rusk
- > rrusk@ssd.csd.harris.com
- > My thoughts, probably not Harris'.
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- Heck, even Chevy's own Corvair had IRS!!! :)
- (of course, the early models had that damn swing-axle design,
- but the late models had the sophisticated IRS based on the
- Corvette/Cobra/E-Type rear suspensions)
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