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How light is too light for suspension arms?

How light is too light for suspension arms?

RE: How light is too light for suspension arms?

And the  right hand tether broke..

RE: How light is too light for suspension arms?

How about some fracture toughness for arms?  Or plastic deformation?  Tethers have not proven to be the answer.

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RE: How light is too light for suspension arms?

Next time someone tells me to do something a certain way "because that's how they do it in F1 and that is the pinnacle of racing engineering !!!", I will just link them this video.

Granted the design may work excellent if you never run over rumble strips.  But the car is very slow indeed when the front suspension is scattered across the infield!

RE: How light is too light for suspension arms?

Colin Chapman would have called it perfect.

Me, I'd like a little larger Factor of Ignorance.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: How light is too light for suspension arms?

its all about the trade offs

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