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Reply to "Mangusta Top Rear Link Double HEIM solution?"

When I was talking with Dick Ruzzin about changes we could make to our Mangusta (we originally planned to race it, but now have come to our senses and restoring as road car!) he was emphatic about the benefit of changes he made to the rear bridge that holds the ZF trans.  Basically the bridge was originally soft mounted via bushes to each side rail and the ZF is then solidly mounted.  This is round the wrong way.  So he decided to solidly mount the bridge and soft mount the trans.

Dick told me he could feel difference in a few hundred yards of driving the car. The bridge is removable to take the engine out.

He wrote an article on it which I will try and dig out but he definitely felt that the comments  the Mangusta received when released were down to this fundamental design flaw.  Combine that stiffness with the double Heim / Rose joint on the arms would improve everything while keeping the suspension settings constant.  When we did race our car for a short period of time (before we had a chance to do the mods, it was VERY lively at the back and often jin sideways over bumps under braking as you came on and off the power - very unpredictable!



hope that helps

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