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well any suggestions so a better descriptive term? cannot call it anti diver really as that pertains to the geometry of a front end with brakes.
Old green car with original semi trail arms, I bent first set first trip, bad design. After learning more, I rebuilt stout never another problem. Would only do semi trailing so you can get some camber. Mine was 15* angle on mount tube. Had +1* at full droop and -3* at full bump if I remember. Another thing w/ trailing arms, it allows a diff motor tranny to be used and only changing axles if inside cv cups distance changes. I'm really happy with current wide spread A-arms I'm running. Strong, adjustable, non plunge cv's pretty easy to build. I didn't build in any camber, but that may change with new wheel hubs. They are harder to build around the center sprocket drive to get no plunge, some real head scratching and banging!!
well multi link and dual a-arms are definitely more difficult to design and build than trailing arms are to buy lol in your case build on that green single seater but for most they just buy them as 3x3 5x5 7x7 etc etc. the dual a-arm design imo is more difficult than a 5 or 6 link. principals are the same but getting every tube connected correctly and lined up for proper support in a manner where everything pivots on the correct plane for the cv's and still be able to adjust toe for alignment ......ya, def not for the beginners with a good enough attitude!
CAD is my friend. Real CAD,notCardboard Aided Design either! Honestly,I'd find building and properly locating mounting tabs for semi/semi trailing arms just as hard to get right. Extremely small errors in locating tabs make big problems that cannot easily be corrected. I've seen countless trailing/semi trailing arm cars with some crazy alignment issues.