Is there a demand for this sort of thing for lower budget racers if it weren't expensive?
mainly to accomplish one of the following things:

check new/current units against eachother
check current units before and after a season (check up for consistency)
check A units against B units

please select YES or NO

After having the force/velocity graphs, would it be helpful for people to have a simple equation of motion derived for a front and rear quarter car model for their car?
This would tell you a little bit about your suspension design and would include parameters that included your motion ratios, damping ratio, spring rate, and masses involved, etc.

I'm very interested in vehicle dynamics, and Im a grad student at VT for the subject, which is why I am curious.

thank you.

 

also, please include some comments as well. especially if you say no.

what else would be helpful as far as this service would be concerned?
-derek

 

With the advent of cheaper data acquisition, I know a lot of grassroots/amateur racers and drivers who are looking for that data to improve their driving. Your idea seems to fall along that line. The only issue I see with it is that there are some similar services available. The information might also just be unnecessary to some people, especially those without data acquisition and a way to utilize the data you'd be providing.

All that being said, I voted "yes".

 

I voted yes
However I agree that there might not be a huge demand for it for most club level racers. I would recommend though that if you are interested in doing this, get the proper equipment to do it, the cheap stuff that you might see around at some places is very inconsistent in the way it reads. Proper shock dynos are expensive for a reason, and they have to be calibrated regularly along with the software. I'm sure you probably have some stuff at tech, but i'm just saying in general if you were to do this out on your own.

I can't remember for the life of me the manufacturer of the stuff we used at school, but i know the hardware for it was in the 10k-20k range somewhere. Or so we were reminded every day. There are also higher end stuff than that out there, so just do your research.

 

oh i know. ive been involved in their use some.
roehrig is the big company.

and i couldnt use school stuff to make a business, lol. id have to get my own.

 

anyone else?