Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

Register Log in
  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. cranknpiston

    Ratio of wheelbase to track width.

    How to decide the ratio of wheelbase to track wWidth? Like what should be the track width for a particular wheelbase (say 54" wheelbase), or what should be the wheelbase for a particular track width? Considering the fact that the vehicle is a Baja ATV (max. allowed wheelbase: 108", max. allowed...
  2. cranknpiston

    Determining the optimum percentage of Anti-Dive and Anti-Squat.

    so do you mean that no amount of both the antis is of use or will some percentage of Anti-Dive will help? And if so, how do I know what percentage?
  3. cranknpiston

    Determining the optimum percentage of Anti-Dive and Anti-Squat.

    Hello, I recently learned that higher values of both Anti-Dive and Anti-Squat are disadvantageous; Anti-Squat over 100% resulting into wheel hop under braking and Anti-Dive over 100% resulting into noises of some sort. I also learned that typical values usually are from 0% to 50%. Now as I've...
  4. cranknpiston

    which commercial vehicle brands use More Ackerman setting and to what extent?

    That's alright, but lets get to the actual topic. How do I estimate the extent of more ackerman that I should apply to the vehicle? I mean, if the vehicle isn't built yet, and I want to figure out the extent of more ackerman that I should have on it having the wheelbase, track width and the...
  5. cranknpiston

    which commercial vehicle brands use More Ackerman setting and to what extent?

    I'd want more Ackerman because i'm thinking of going for an initial front Toe-in setting as I have known that rear wheel drive vehicles go good with a front Toe-in setting for straight line stability, and to compensate for the sluggishness that the toe-in provides during turning we could use a...
  6. cranknpiston

    which commercial vehicle brands use More Ackerman setting and to what extent?

    If I got that right, do you mean to say that nobody could make use of More Ackerman geometry? Why is that?
  7. cranknpiston

    which commercial vehicle brands use More Ackerman setting and to what extent?

    And for the second part, for an ATV of wheelbase almost the same as its track width (54") what percent of More Ackerman would you suggest, and why?
  8. cranknpiston

    which commercial vehicle brands use More Ackerman setting and to what extent?

    You got me a little wrong here. I merely want to know the examples of commercial vehicle brand (toyota, chevrolet...any type of passenger street car) models that have used More Ackerman Steering and not True Ackerman or Less Ackerman geometry, and by how much (the percentage like 150% 200%)...
  9. cranknpiston

    How does an initial setting of front Toe-in help in straight line stability?

    How does an initial setting of front Toe-in help in straight line stability? What makes a vehicle with a front toe-in more stable while travelling straight?
  10. cranknpiston

    which commercial vehicle brands use More Ackerman setting and to what extent?

    Which commercial vehicle brands use More Ackerman setting and to what extent? How do you estimate the percentage of More Ackerman that will suit your vehicle best?
Back
Top