The original wishbone suspension was designed by Allan Staniforth, a well know hillclimber and suspension designer.
It was designed on behalf of Dave Rutherford, who built it into (Frank Grimleys?) racing +8 for the Northern Sports car championship
When Dave was looking to retire he sold the plans to Rob Wells of Librands fame
Rob commissioned Pete Mulberry to build him a kit for his +8 (MOG8R)
When I joined Mulfab, Pete had just bought a crashed Series 1 Roadster to build for himself
I was tasked with getting all the drawings up and together and making the wishbone kit producible in small volumes
I also sorted out a few geometry issues that the early kits had
It does work very well, it completely eliminates bump steer, gives a fantastic ride quality and handling
The only issue that I never fully resolved was the lack of self centring from the steering
The kit needed more castor built into it’s
I’ve still got in the back of my head to do a Mk2 version, with a lot of revisions that could hopefully be cheaper too
It certainly worked superbly Simon, I didn’t pick up the lack of self centring but I was rather busy ;-), Pete wouldn’t come out on test with me he just said ‘give it some, find it’s limits“..... I got nowhere near the limit! (and Pete knew I used to do this for a living on the XJ S3 chassis programme ;-))
BR
Colin
