Race Car Suspension Design Book. He is perhaps best known for his terrapin series of self designed racing cars and as author of the best selling race and rally car source book. Both are really good with the latter being very very useful for designing your own race sports car suspension.
I definately recommend that noone reads the new book on racing tires by paul haney. Of course since the title is about suspension disign that s pretty much the whole book. The book also includes a unique string based model approach to hands on visualization of suspension movement.
Staniforth is an fsae design judge so reading the book obviously can t hurt.
Of course since the title is about suspension disign that s pretty much the whole book. Explains race car suspensions theory and design. It contains too much useful information and will only make your car faster besides i read all these books and still have no clue how to design a proper suspension. Hand selected by racing engineer legend carroll smith the 27 sae technical papers in this book focus on the chassis and suspension design of pure racing cars an area that has traditionally been farmed out to independent designers or firms since the early 1970s.
