Ray Bell said:Rose joints I understand, compound curve panels in carbon I understand... but why inboard suspension?
Originally posted by jastanis
Having the springs, shocks inboard would reduces the unsprung mass. On a car that light, reducing unsprung mass by even a couple of kgs would increase performance and handling.
Ray Bell said:Not really... the spring is still the same, and you've added the links that allow the spring and shock to be inboard. And if you use gas shocks you can actually do better with it outboard...
jr20516v said:no problems Billy...it would be a pleasure m8 ! May even take it to QR soon.
cheers JR
Originally posted by jastanis
When doing suspension calcs, for the unsprung mass we take the weights of all the wheels, brakes etc, and half the weight of the wishbones, springs, shocks. By having the springs and shocks inboard, you reduce that portion of the unsprung mass. The only extra unsprung mass that is added is half the mass of the one pushrod link that is required to transfer the force to the inboard springs/shocks. The pushrod link weighs far less than the springs/shocks, even gas shockers.
Ray Bell said:But you still have to include half the spring and the portion of the shock that's attached. That cannot change. The whole pushrod weight would have to be included... it all moves, after all.
Ray Bell said:It's not a matter of where it's located on the car, it's a matter of whether it moves in relation to the chassis... the term is describing anything that has an inertia effect on the suspension's movement or control.