Bored and wanna read?? Tech Ref.

[canuckr]

If you bored at home and wanna read some great articles about chassis by Mark Ortiz and such look here:

Mark Ortiz Articles

If any of you read Racecar Engineering you can find these articles in back under "The Consultant".

Also if you know of any other good tech articles feel free to post them here. It would be nice to have a great little reference for good reads when your bored in the winter time.

[Safir]

"physics of racing"

sort of meant for novices but good for all

http://www.miata.net/sport/Physics/

[canuckr]

Technobabble: September 1999

Scrub Radius and the Dave Point

By Dave Coleman

SCC is good for some stuff

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[canuckr]

Several interesting articles on race car handling and driving articles

Articles

Two of them are by Wm. C. Mitchell (a.k.a. Bill Mitchell) who should know a few things about suspension geometry. They are in PDF form and you can just save yourself a copy of each.

[canuckr]

The technically minded might be interested in this new book. It includes a CD with an Excel based suspension design program called Wan31 and a demo version of WinGeo3 by Wm. C. Mitchell. Here is a link to a description page:
http://www.guyons.com/Book%20flyer.pdf

It was written by Warren Rowley:

http://www.rowleyrace.com

Check out the "About" section of Rowley's site to see who is involved.Impressive!

You can download a sample 60 page chapter in PDF here to see if it is a book for you (It is for me!):

http://www.telusplanet.net/~rowleyw/PDF/Chpt6.pdf

The book and software is $128. The author says that he and Bill Mitchell discovered errors in the software and this affects many chapters in the book, so they are reprinting it in May. You might want to wait till then to get a copy.

[RossNoLongerIntegra]

I found this to be informative

The Effects of Chassis Flexibility on Roll
Stiffness of a Winston Cup Race Car

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cache/pap...of-chassis.pdf

[canuckr]

Grassroots has a bunch of good articles...Corner weighting, oil, shocks, etc

http://www.grmotorsports.com/techmain.php

[canuckr]

Shock info from Koni....How to adjust rebound/bound (see SCCA shock seminar), civic shock comparsion, etc

http://www.koni-na.com/tools/

[cgyellow]

How about text books?

Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics by Tom Gillspie

Theory of Ground Vehicles by Wong

Books for classes they offer at UofM in the Automotive Engineering program. All the fundamentals.

I know, people only read websites and magazines. I'm the same way. Oh well.

[canuckr]

Goot books...

I read the book by Tom Gillspe before...To bad I dont remeber anything from it :P

More books

Race Car Vehicle Dynamics by Milliken and Milliken(sp)
All of Carrol Smiths books
How to make your car handle by Fred Puhn
Competition Car suspension by Alan Staniforth.

[Switch]

Bump this for the 2006 season

[canuckr]

Roll Center Myths and Reality..

http://www.neohio-scca.org/comp_clin...Center2007.pdf

[canuckr]

I updated and deleted any out-dated links in this thread..

Have reading..

[dzld231]

Holy 3 year thread grave dig, Batman

[13B]

I updated and deleted any out-dated links in this thread..

Have reading..

And I was amazed that I didn't come across a dead link, even 7 years later . Thanks for keeping it up, nothing is more enraging than coming across an interesting-sounding link only to find out that it doesn't exist anymore.

[EK Civic Racer]

One of my faves
http://farnorthracing.com/autocross_secrets.html

[RacingManiac]

I love that link to the collection of Mark Ortiz's articles...they are usually my favorite bit in RCE...