Touring car rear suspension
Touring car rear suspension
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Hi Guys,
I am having a bit of hard time getting my self arround this type of rear suspension.
I can see that roll center location must be defined by the link on top og the triangles and then the angle of these like if it was a lower wishbone, but i find it hard to see which pickup points to combine in order to visualize it.
Does this kind of suspension has a name, I know it was used on older touring cars and the same is used on newer race cars as well, but i really need someone to explain it to me.
Thank you very much!
I am having a bit of hard time getting my self arround this type of rear suspension.
I can see that roll center location must be defined by the link on top og the triangles and then the angle of these like if it was a lower wishbone, but i find it hard to see which pickup points to combine in order to visualize it.
Does this kind of suspension has a name, I know it was used on older touring cars and the same is used on newer race cars as well, but i really need someone to explain it to me.
Thank you very much!





RE: Touring car rear suspension
Golfpin
RE: Touring car rear suspension
- fit onto the chassis pickup points of a twist-beam rear axle
- be stiff (low compliance effects)
- be adjustable in camber
- be adjustable in toe
Regards, IanRE: Touring car rear suspension
Golfpin
RE: Touring car rear suspension
Golfpin
RE: Touring car rear suspension
It was used on Renault supertouring back in the 90's and is now used on the Cruze Wtcc car among others.
I found it on facebook in the group called "touring car spares" :
stolen pictures!
https://scontent-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31...
https://scontent-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/l/t...
https://scontent-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/l/t...
RE: Touring car rear suspension
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Touring car rear suspension
Golfpin
RE: Touring car rear suspension
A modern driver (Andrew Jordan) had this to say about driving one today.
“The Laguna felt much more on a knife edge,” he added. “It was very different to drive, it feels like it darts around, certainly a lot more on cold tyres. I felt like I was on my back foot with it, because it’s hard work even to stay on the straight. I’m sure as you get more used to it and the tyres come up to temperature it gets better, just it was a bit of a shock going from the Vauxhall to that and how different it actually felt.”
- http://www.btcccrazy.co.uk/btcc/jordan-enjoys-blas...
The suspension shown in your first post sure looks battered and bent. And more like a prototype or even a home made spare than any of the pictures in the later posts (which have coilovers).
RE: Touring car rear suspension
Golfpin
RE: Touring car rear suspension
You could use a bush instead of a ball joint, that would reduce the jacking effect.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Touring car rear suspension
If my hunch is correct then this replaces a twist-beam, so the hard-points are only the front mounts of each fabrication, and the top mounts of the springs / dampers. The ARB may be something the original car did not have?
The camber looks to be adjustable by that link across the top, the toe adjustment is hidden. Rear toe & rear camber settings will be very powerful for dialling in the tyre temp lateral distribution (camber) & braking / turn-in stability (toe). That's why the designer has effectively bolted an upright to a fabricated beam, via sphericals and (probably) shims - to maintain or even increase installation stiffness while allowing fine adjustment.
Regardless of the details of this particular suspension, if I were designing a FWD touring car rear suspension my key criteria would be installed toe stiffness, followed by installed camber stiffness, followed by easy adjustment of toe & camber, followed by easy adjustment of roll stiffness.
Regards, Ian
RE: Touring car rear suspension
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Touring car rear suspension
1965 to 1969 Corvairs had slotted brackets with index marks at the front of the control arms for rear toe-in.
1963 to ?? Corvettes used shims to shift the front control arms for toe.
Pages 9-13 tp 9-15 here-
http://vintage.mitchell1.com/PClubData/chassis/dch...
Is that what you meant by "ugly" ?
regards,
Dan T
RE: Touring car rear suspension
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Touring car rear suspension
I hadn't replied earlier (despite being called upon) because I've never seen something like this before and couldn't see how it worked, but I can see it now, as an adjustable substitute for a twist-beam axle, in which "da rulez" call for using only the attachment points to the chassis that the original production car used.
RE: Touring car rear suspension
were actually intended to provide controlled
roll steer.
They were serendipitously handy
for adjusting rear toe.
... Which more than half
the time had to be done twice because the
gorilla in the pit forgot that the car
was facing backwards while he was
adjusting rear toe.
I have the t-shirt.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Touring car rear suspension
OLD TIMER GOLFPIN
RE: Touring car rear suspension
C3 Corvettes ( 1963 to 7?) are criticized for having no "front" struts, but one common story is that their absence allows toe-in under heavy throttle.
RE: Touring car rear suspension
Pit gorillas never read shop manuals, of course.
From an engineer's perspective, the front strut rod was adjusted after the toe was adjusted.
Its preferred static orientation was level or parallel to the road.
Its inner end was anchored to the body by a simple bracket that could be slid up or down.
The nuts and rubber bushings on the fsr were tightened enough to make it "just so" stiff.
As the car rolled, the body would pull in on the outside fsr and give a little roll induced understeer.
You had to be doing some serious cornering to induce much body roll in a Corvair, but you could feel the fsrs working.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Touring car rear suspension
Think about the different axis created by those links and joints, and how asymmetric movements of each side would react with those links and joints.
When the each side is under the same load, the entire assembly moves up and down relative to the car and will move on a longitudinal and vertical plane created by the joints bolted directly to the car. However, when side 1 moves more than side 2, the center joint will make side 1 move relative to the axis created by itself and the joint bolted on the frame. The anti roll bar will also help enforce the fact that it cant rotate relative to the front joint on the vertical plane.
When one wheel is getting more force to it than the other one, the suspension will move on a different plane than the one created by the longitudinal link. The Anti Roll Bar constrains it from moving completely on the longitudinal axis relative to the wheel and the car. Then the spindle moves on the axis made by the lower center connecting link/joint and the part that is mounted on the car. When the spindle rises above that axis, it should toe outward relative to the car. While doing that, the top connecting link will either do nothing, or the ball joint will complete its range of motion and force the other wheel to stay in place or go down slightly.
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RE: Touring car rear suspension
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