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Advantages of Torsion:

1. The main advantages of a torsion bar suspension are durability.


2. Easy adjustability of ride height.
3. Small profile along the width of the vehicle.
4. It takes up less of the vehicle's interior volume than coil springs.
5. Mantle’s sensory organs are twisted due to torsion.
6. Advantage of torsion concerns an anterior opening of the mantle cavity that
allows clean water from in front of the snail to enter the mantle cavity, rather
than water contaminated with silt stirred up by the snail’s crawling.

Disadvetages of Torsion:

1. Disadvantage of Torsion is that torsion bars,unlike coil springs, usually


cannot provide a progressive spring rate.
2. In most torsion bar systems, ride height (and therefore many handling
features) may be changed by simply adjusting bolts that connect the torsion
bars to the steering knuckles.
3. In most cars with this type of suspension, swapping torsion bars for a
different spring rate is usually an easy task.
4. Various modifications produce notches or openings in the mantle and shell
posterior o the head. Therefore, the mantle cavity removes the water and
wastes through these opening.
5. Some gastropods undergo detorsion. In this case the embryo undergoes a full
180° torsion and then untwists approximately 90°. The mantle cavity thus
opens on the tight side of the body behind the head.
6. Mot gastropods scrap algae or other small, attached organisms from their
substrate. Some are herbivores. They feed on larger plants. Others are
scavengers, par sites or predators.

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