Scrappy said:
Just because its "perfect" doesnt mean the stress is gone. It just is harder to find. I think you (vetteboy) should just let the ideas come to you and make sketches when you need to. Then try to incorporate them into your build. Dont build for just function. You do have to drive in the thing, make it look badass too.
Oh, don't worry about that. It'll be friggin awesome, at least to me. I'm going to spend a lot of time on the details of this build, because I don't want to look at it in a year and say "oh, I wish I had done that better...". I've got the bonus of not having a set deadline for this, so the only limiting factors are gonna be time and money (as always). Hopefully I'll have it wheelable for the spring.
As for getting rid of the unibody flex...I agree, there's tradeoffs involved. There's always going to be some area of the chassis where you haven't stiffened it as much, and you'll end up with cracking and fatiguing at those points. I guess the key is building it, then identifying those areas before it becomes too much of a problem.
I don't think the leaf vs. link thing is really dependent on the unibody, but moreso how the respective suspensions were set up. I think Cracker's right about it probably being due to having more traction, and I'll even add to that by saying that depending on the anti-squat and such, there could have been more weight placed over the rear when trying to move than what used to be there.
But overall, this build is going to be as much about learning as it is about actually creating something. That's why I like posts/discussions like this one, because it helps me to relate what I can do in a theoretical sense to what happens in the real world.
