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Originally Posted by Super Bleeder!!
Thats one of the most igneous areas of the car. The springs are not old school at all, they are totally modern composite structure used in a smart way.
"The Corvettes transverse leaf springs serve the same purpose as coil springs in other vehicles, but they are lighter and allow for the vehicles mass to be closer to the ground. The springs also allow for thinner/lighter anti-roll bars since they can assume some of that duty"
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Exactly. By transverse, it's meant that the Corvette has a leaf spring that connects the left and right sides of the rear independent suspension, unlike most muscle cars that used leaf springs fore and aft to control each side independent of each other. They've been doing this on the Vette since 1963, pretty techy at that time, and improved on ever since.
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