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I found this via Google search, not sure how to access from the site's home page:

http://www.fromsteve.net/carstuff/suspe ... onCalc.htm

The parent website is Build a Faster Car.

To use, open the link in Excel and insert your own values. It can be saved on your hard drive in .xls format.

This spreadsheet allows you to tweak suspension settings and estimate outcomes in terms of roll couple distribution, load on each tire, and degrees of body roll. It is brilliant.

Chet, could you sticky this?

Edit: It might be a little presumptious to ask for a sticky, but the nearest thing to this that I know of costs some $$$.

Pete

It's a straightforward torque balance of all major components, just a force x distance. I wrote one myself and provide it free to all book buyers

ORLY, KB?



Hahaha, like I said...

Isn't it funny how every profession has its own tricks of the trade? To an engineer, this is child's play. A surgeon can slice off the organ of your choice without blinking. I can read bad handwriting upside-down across a desk.

I've found this one surfing on the net:
http://fsae.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1256 ... 8510005141

Some of the articles there are woeful, take them with a grain of salt.

Hi there,

I came upon this site in doing some suspension research. I was going to use a few resources, including Steve's, as a basis to piece together some theory and put it all into practice

I'm curious as to the articles that are woeful - is there still something useful that might still be pulled from them?

Thanks!

'Build a Faster Car' looks to have a lot of 'fluff', but on the plus side, it was the only place I found (on the web, but I'm not the best searcher) that gave me formulae for caster- and KPi-induced camber when I was doing suspension geometry design using a string computer. Of course, I could have bought a chassis dynamics text ...