Suspension setup - book recommendations

[mark123]

I'm looking to read up on car suspension/chassis setup.

The sort of stuff I'm interested in learning about includes geometry, spring rates, damping, anti-roll bars and how it all interacts.

Thanks

 

[bozothenutter]

racecar vehicle dynamics...by Bill Milliken
Heavy reading (above my head), but apparently the Ferrari f1 teams owns 14 copies....and i bet Adrian Newey does too!

I have "how to make your car handle" by Fred Puhn a bit dated but covers the basics.

Put car and handling into mamzon and plenty pops up.

 

[mark123]

Thanks. Hoping to get some recommendations rather than just looking on amazon and hoping.

 

[BIGASH]

I'm seeing my suspension chap in the next few days I will ask him as he did recommend me one a while ago but haven't got round to it yet!

 

[Sam@NP]

For a simples book got for, Competition Car Suspension

more serious, racecar vehicle dynamics...by Bill Milliken as well as The multibody System Approach to Vehicle Dynamics by Mike Blundell and Damian Harty

 

[shiftspark]

Me too !
I have Competition car suspension and Race and rally car source book both by Alan Staniforth they are very good but more about single seater stuff. I am sure there was an earlier version of Race and rally car that had a step by step guide on how a 205 gti was turned into the rally winner it was.

I assume you want something more car biased?

 

[mark123]

Yes saloon car biased over single seater.

 

[bozothenutter]

I have that Staniforth book too...found it a bit messy and all over the place

 

[shiftspark]

Re books - have you found anything worth having Mark?

 

[mark123]

I haven't got around to looking yet

Will probably have a look next week some time.