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4 link FED anyone

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slingshot383:
The Magic Car had a subfame that the rearend and engine was a component, and the rest of the car was another.  One of Kent Fullers masterpieces.

tylercrawford:

--- Quote from: slingshot383 on May 24, 2013, 02:16:28 PM ---The Magic Car had a subfame that the rearend and engine was a component, and the rest of the car was another.  One of Kent Fullers masterpieces.

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that was my initial thought . . . magicar

Everything I've ever read on it said they had problems with it and the dragster never went as fast as it should have.  Everything about the digger is beautiful, one of the best looking FEDs ever made IMO

slingshot383:
So much has changed since then, tires, traction compounds, I bet it just might work nowdays!

schino:
i got the FED bug again so i was checking out the forum here and came across this thread so i had to sign up.  i started building a 4 link FED when i was 21,  got the back half somewhat roughed in but far from finished.  i lost interest in it and its been sitting for 7 years now.  ill get some pics and post up what i was doing.  its apart now and sitting on a steel pile

schino:
forgot i had pics already on the web.





if i were to continue with the build id change the sway bar/torsion/mono shock link.  after making those pieces i thought it would be better to build a frame off of the bottom 4 links to wrap up around the driveshaft with mono shock mounted over trans.  some of the RED's do a similar setup.  this falls in/or at least did, for sfi specs.  only thing in rules state anti rotation device which this would be heavily strapped in place and things added to limit motion. 3/4 heim ends on heavy wall CM tubing.  im curious as to what you guys think.  when i started building it i thought i saw some links on neil parks car and asked them, they told me (in some sort of wording) that it would be pointless to do.

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