good books on suspension design?

[racin66coupe]

what are some good books out there on front and rear suspension design? street/ track, strictly track, etc...

thanks!

[exwestracer]

Allan Staniforth's "Competition Car Suspension" does a great job of explaining most every type of suspension system ever used. There was a thread on this a while back, with a LOT of good choices, but I'm not sure if it survived the PT makeover...?

[jay72nova]

That is a good book...I have been plowing through every suspension book I can find myself and as a layman you might want to pic up something as an intro to the terms etc... "How to Make your musclecar handle" is a good example for newbies like me.

[SLO_Z28]

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2011/12/51RPTK9WZCL_SL500_AA300_-1.jpg
Is an amazing book. Definitely not a beginners book though, and you probably want to brush up on your trigonometry and calculus before diving in, but it does a VERY good job of explaining suspensions.


If youre looking for more of a beginner/light reading book then you cant beat Herb Adams:

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2011/12/51q5BmPEACL_BO2204203200_PIsitbstickerar-1.jpg

[exwestracer]

Milliken is still the bible for those who can understand it...

[MonzaRacer]

http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Your-Car-Handle/dp/0912656468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323071653&sr=8-1

[astroracer]

Just keep in mind there is no "magic bullit" book out there. The books cover a lot of ground... Design, theory, common practice kind of stuff, but none of them will design a front or rear suspension for you. They cannot take you from a clean sheet of paper to a working, optimized suspension. This requires a lot of knowledge and applied practices the books can't teach.
You may want to look into the Performance Trends Suspension Analyizer program. It will give you some canned suspension profiles (Corvette being one of them) that you can use to actually move points around to see what this or that does to handling, Roll Center or Ackerman numbers. Get a couple of books to get up to speed with the terminology and then do a trial with the P.T.S.A. program.
Of course ask tons of questions here. Ray, Bryce, Dave and even myself will try to help you out.

[High Plains Mopars]

I'd recommend things from the Steve Smith Autosports library. http://www.ssapubl.com/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Many titles in here cover basics to more advanced theories and designs. While most of the best books cover oval track racing, it is easy to remove the offsets to create symetrical set ups. Two of the better ones are "Building the Pro Stock Late Model Sportsman" and "Advanced Race Car Suspension Development" and its accompanying workbook.

While neither will get in to the highly advanced concepts like Milliken or Adams, they have plenty of meat in them and will provide plenty of material for review and re-reads for many years.