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pickmeup

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13th Oct, 2015 at 12:36:15pm

Hi All,
Im working on a 'retro' sixties style F1 single seater with a bike powered V4 engine. Im going to be making the chassis and bodywork and probably manufacturing the wishbones etc.

My brother in law has come up with the design, and we have borrowed some existing suspension geometry from an up to date race car, however neither of us are that au fair with suspension geometry design, although we both know how to setup a car.

Is anyone on here good at simulating suspension geometry or can point me in the right direction?
Many thanks
Gaz


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wil_h

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13th Oct, 2015 at 03:42:03pm

No idea, there must be some books on the subject though.

For example http://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Motorcycle-e...60_SR123%2C160_



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On 2nd Jan, 2013 fastcarl said:
the design shows a distinct lack of imagination,
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Midas

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13th Oct, 2015 at 03:58:53pm

Alan Staniforths books could be a good start.

monsterob

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13th Oct, 2015 at 05:26:35pm

Have you looked into the haynes roadster theres talk on their forum of a single seater desiged by chris gibbs to follow the book build your own sportscar on a budget. There will be others doing them on there or the kit car forum.
I built a roadster but 2 kids plus me dont go into a 2 seater so back to minis

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pickmeup

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13th Oct, 2015 at 07:19:12pm

yeah ive read the bike engined book, was really good for chassis construction and suspension geometry.
im going to start reading the staniforth book on the subject once ive found it in my pile of stuff.
what im after ideally is someone that can take the cad model or geometry and do some dynamic test/simulation

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13th Oct, 2015 at 08:04:56pm

Nice project

On 7th Oct, 2010 5haneJ said:
yeah I gave it all a good prodding
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