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Originally Posted by levontraut
in real life cars, it is like having a solid diff with leaf springs in the car
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That's nearer what you have in the rear of the Supastox. The front end is just like the trailing beam axle found under the rear of almost all front wheel drive cars on the road today.
The kit front end is still independent. The plate acts as a pair of semi trailing arms, the centre strip twists to act as an anti roll bar as well as the inner mounting point of each arm. It's a proven concept that has been around since the 80s and was good enough for Corally to win many Euro and World championships with it. The independent front end is more useful on ovals, where you can use it to put a bias into the chassis. Only turning one way means you can run a softer inside and a harder outside to help handing around an oval.
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... then you get the cars that have independent arms and all... they just handel better..
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The Supastox is more like all the lightweight racing cars, such as F1 cars. The suspensions on those use a single heave spring to support each end of the car, and each side is connected by a very stiff anti roll bar. The fact they are solidly attached and not actually independent is why they can actually get back to the pits when they get a puncture.
A lot of 1/8th on road chassis, while having double wishbone suspension, have a very much solid anti roll bar fitted so again they are more or less attached each side with no real independent suspension.
If the Supastox was more like a much heavier touring car or road car, with similar amounts of suspension movement, you would need to run considerably harder tyres to lose grip and stop it falling over at every corner. Just because it has a saloon or GT body on top of it doesn't mean it actually behaves like one.