Any comments on increasing side intrusion stiffness and/or isolating the passenger compartment from any frontal crash by way of a nice and long torsion bar?
I would be interested in finding a derivation for an approximation to generate almost perfect Ackerman as reported in Milliken's book pg 715 Fig 19.3. Anyone?
The outer tie rod is set by Ackermann requirements and is usually set to understeer under lateral force. Milliken suggests a good approximation for this (sec. 19.2) - The outer tierod ball joint lies on the line connecting the king pin and the rear axle center. You can tune it from there on...