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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:07:57 -0400, the infamous Joseph Gwinn
scrawled the following:
I recall reading these explanations, but no longer recall the
details. I don't
recall that it was called "jacking", though. My friend didn't call
it that, if
I recall.
I dare you to find it when googling "car jacking". 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_axle
http://www.corvaircorsa.com/wright.html
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Chevrolet_Corvair?t=4.
http://everything2.com/title/Chevrolet+Corvair
Anyone involved with sports car racing in the '60s knew it as jacking.
If you talk to someone who claims to have been there and who doesn't
know immediately what you mean by "jacking," in reference to Corvairs,
VW's, Porsches, Formula V's, Triumph Spitfires, or even pre-'64
Pontiac Tempests g, then he wasn't really there.
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Ed Huntress
Might have been a regional term. I raced San Francisco Region SCCA and
do not recall any discussions of "jacking".
Well, you were racing Corvettes. We didn't talk much to the guys who
raced above DP. d8-)
Seriously, if you weren't racing against Spitfires, or if you weren't
involved with FV, it probably wouldn't have come up. There were few John
Fitch Corvairs (like mine) on race tracks. But those of us who raced in
the smaller classes were well aware of it.
Porsches didn't have much of an issue with it because their weight
biases and suspension wasn't prone to jacking. The forces preferentially
favored compression of the outside springs, so they didn't build up much
jacking force. You could jack a street-stock Speedster, but by the time
they got to a race track they had negative-camber springs and they were
strapped down with stabilizer bars or a Z-bar on the rear, and Koni
shocks, until they felt like go-carts. The best way for a young tyro to
keep from killing himself with a Speedster was to tie the suspension
down hard, until it would hardly move.
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Ed Huntress
I was also involved in D Prod. My best friend ran TR2's,3,4's. You can
bore out a TR4 and install a Rambler piston and get some serious go
power. ;)
And you could hotwire the Laycock de Normanville electric overdrive on
them (overdrive was an option) and get 8 speeds forward. Much joy. d8-)
Was never a real Porshe fan. The first sports car I ever worked on was a
Maserati. Went down hill from there.
I guess! A Birdcage, by any chance?
Aquaintance near where I lived had a Maserati, and I help him with some
brake problems during my teen years. I was always great mechanically.
Grew up in a large machine shop enviroment. Was going to be a mechanical
engineer or geologist. But due to lifes whims, I ended up an electronic
engineer.
A lot of twists and turns happen in life, eh? The jobs I've had are ones
I'd never heard of. g
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Ed Huntress
I still want a Birdcage. Nope, was a street Maserati. Can not even
remember the model anymore. Was back in 1961.