In the Aug '05 issue of Sport Compact Car, there is part 3 of their suspension tech artlces. Sometimes you have to take what you read out of car magazines with a grain of salt. SCC is only one of the few car rags that I read because they do not have ads for 26" chrome wheels... yet. I digress.

In this installment, there is a lot of focus on suspension geometry. I would think that the way they put it is like introductory suspension engineering. Discussing roll couple, roll center and center of gravity is good stuff.

Has anyone looked at this, any thoughts?


Modified by PupaScoopa at 9:52 AM 7/4/2005

 

I subscribe and just so you know its Aug 05 not 02. Ive been reading all of the installments so far, but I havent reached this months. Will be the next thing I read when im taking a poo.

 

Yeah... 05'.... what was I smoking?

If I only read it a few days prior, I would have taken the measurements of my suspension and crunched those numbers. While I had everything apart...

 

ive read a couple books on suspension and what scc says is pretty much copy and paste and make it easier for ur regular joe to somewhat understand it. i have learned alot more from the books than what scc has put reason for being that to understand suspension u have to read everything about it first then go back and reread sections to start applying it to cars.

 

Yeah, that sounds like the best idea. What they wrote isn't bad for the average tinkerer without having to absorb one of those engineer-level books.

 

I have the mag, but haven't gotten that far yet. 4th of July weekend didnt leave me much free time. When I read through it i'll post back up.

 

i just read it. only thing i got out of it was pitying SE-R owners... kinda appropriate since mike kojima wrote it.