I know that there are no exact specifications to tune a cars suspension since every car is different, but does anyone have some guidlines on how to do it and what to look and feel for?

 

If it feels good to you go with it. Hard to be exact without specifics.

 

play with the car until it feels comfortable to you!

 

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...books

 

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That's your answer for everything

 

The stop watch does not lie.

 

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He figured the same technique he uses with his right hand on himself will work for any car.....

 

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How basic a guideline do you need?

 

Like an overview of how to drive the car in order to test it and what to look for, then how to compinsate for it.

 

Going Faster by Skip Barber Racing School

 

First step is to determine what the problem is. Does it push? Is it too loose? Is the response too slow?

If you don't know try riding or driving in a car that is already sorted out and take note of how it handles.

The better you know the problem the easier it is to come up with the solution.

 

Grassroots Motorsports has a couple good tech articles on their website:

Shock tuning

Corner Weighting

swaybar setup

Just some basic tuning advice

-Charlie

 

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Nice!

I added those to the Forum FAQ

 

yea, nice links thanks alot

 

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are we talking about just cars here?

 

Nice articles.

 

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I've thought that it would be cool if a racing school had a class that had cars that are set up wrong intentionally (and maybe even over done) so that they can show drivers how to determin when a car is doing something weird and what it takes to fix it. For example a car is understeering really badly, then they adjust the tire pressures so that it brings it back. It could be a suspension tuning class or something.

Maybe I'm just talking out my *** again tho??

Steve

 

carroll smith put out a simple handbook on what to change to get a certain result, and vice versa called "engineer in your pocket". a definitive guidebook if you dont want to read on "why" or "how", just "what".

http://www.carrollsmith.com/books/pocketbook.html