Most peculiar suspensions.

[xpensive]

Chaparral 2H DeDion rear suppension;

[Belatti]

I cant believe anyone has not posted this:

[Blackout]

The new Merc Y shaped front lower 'wishbone' reminds me of the FW-16 rear suspensions. But i'm not sure; did that Williams have an Y shaped upper arm at the rear, like the Merc, or was it just a normal triangle with a larger trailing part ? what do you think ?





No triangle here

[ralt12]

Here you go….Didn't see this every day...

[Jersey Tom]

Here you go….Didn't see this every day...
http://www.nelsonmotorsports.com/Nelson ... 36_IMG.jpg

Slicks with standing water? Yeah tell me about it!

[humble sabot]

http://imgur.com/a/B3UhL#30
http://imgur.com/a/B3UhL#31

Edit: Wasn't pulling the images from Imgur, so I switched them to [url].

Bloody Mary is one of the best things in the world.

[thisisatest]

Chaparral 2H DeDion rear suppension;

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o199 ... C_2653.jpg

holy cow. is that bronze circle on top a pivot? to set toe? does the toe change dynamically, or just for static adjustment? the boxed in structure looks very stiff, but the ends (and the middle pivot area) look like solid aluminum pieces. must weigh a ton.
i guess there was a bunch of stuff hanging off the back of the car, hence the need to make the DeDion tube go up n over.

[Tim.Wright]

I cant believe anyone has not posted this:

http://www.golpedirecto.com/wp-content/ ... -F2012.jpg

Probably because there is absolutely nothing peculiar about pull rod suspension.

[Tommy Cookers]

holy cow. is that bronze circle on top a pivot?

lateral location ?

[DaveW]

Probably because there is absolutely nothing peculiar about pull rod suspension.

Probably not.... But apart from 3 F1 teams (one of which has quickly reverted), can you think of any other examples of such peculiar front suspension geometry? (ducks head in anticipation).

[Tim.Wright]

Probably because there is absolutely nothing peculiar about pull rod suspension.

Probably not.... But apart from 3 F1 teams (one of which has quickly reverted), can you think of any other examples of such peculiar front suspension geometry? (ducks head in anticipation).

I don't think anyone are doing anything peculiar with the suspension these days.

Save for the fact that Dynatune Paul suspects that some teams might be running suspension with positive camber gain (i.e. opposite to normal) in order to reduce the roll centre heights.

But thats got nothing to do with a pull rod.

Its been illegal to do anything peculiar to the suspension systems for quite a few years now.

[Sebp]

Probably because there is absolutely nothing peculiar about pull rod suspension.

Probably not.... But apart from 3 F1 teams (one of which has quickly reverted), can you think of any other examples of such peculiar front suspension geometry? (ducks head in anticipation).

You had this one coming

[Sombrero]

The very best of active suspension : the FW14B







[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AME4v3qZkc[/youtube]

[DaveW]

You had this one coming.

You are quite right....But the geometry does look more likely.

The very best of active suspension : the FW14B

So does that. But the phrase "best of.." is debatable.

The geometry of this also looks more likely (but it did have an alarming rising rate):



... it didn't have a bad active suspension system, either, but I admit to being biased.

[Sombrero]

You're right : the very best of active suspension including both the forerunners Lotus and Williams.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjHNS8Jvz78[/youtube]

The Lotus active suspension story

http://www.gglotus.org/ggtech/activesus ... vesusp.htm

I read somewhere (Peter Wright) that the active suspension was already a "plan B" to fix the issues with the full length ground effect chassis Lotus 80. It was rejected : too soon. "Plan A" was the twin-bodied Lotus 86 "Torrey Canyon" that lead to the Lotus 88.