If we have a sprung system, so springs on all four corners, why does the system not have 'design' weight distribution at any ride height? Adjusting my car I can change the load on the corner by adjusting the ride height through the coilover spring seat height. But the spring preload on each...
Can anyone explain how a torque tube differs to a 'normal' setup when we we have a front engine vehicle and transmission on the rear axle? It seems to be used on a few cars such as Astons, so there must be some benefit and trade off somewhere, different load path etc. Would be interesting to...
Anyone got any experience in what governs the toe setting? Looking online, different OEMs maybe have even different signed (toe in vs out) especially at the front with sometimes going as low as 0.05 deg. Since the overall balance front to rear axle is made up of many other factors, static toe...
Can someone provide some input as to why an an anti force induces wheel hop? This seems to be prevalent in drag cars, and from what I've noticed is near limit behaviour. What I don't understand is why would anti-squat, so rear, produce this wheel hop during acceleration, and this seems to be...
I'm getting a bit confused with the the yaw axis of the vehicle, which I always assumed to be at the CG. I've recently come across a topic on the inertia match theory which (I think) suggests that there is a different point about which the car yaws, and subsequently the ratio of that to the rear...
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University student here, look at suspension load paths, I made an excel sheet that calculates the loads on the different suspension members when a load is applied. When I input a load acting on the tyre patch though, I get a really weird result where for example my Pushrod is in tension...
