Correctly setting up Suspension, Anyone know how to do it? Options

[Nial]

I have been doing some research into setting up suspension correctly, I have worked out all the maths to calculate things like the roll centres, all 3 centres of gravity, spring rates, ride heights, sprung weight, unsprung weights, Roll bar rates and so on......... but now I dont know what to do with it...I can tell that the roll centres are X inches high, the locations of the centres of gravity, but whats the ideal? does anyone have any real world experience of setting up suspension on GT4s or any other car for that matter????

[Culpable04]

it really depends on you. you are the driver so you're the one that will tune the suspension based on how you want your car to bahave when driving it.

this is only half true, in the end the driver is the one who will fine tune the suspension, but Nial is looking for the theorically " perfect " suspension for his application and how that translate into reality, he basically has the theorical numbers but he wants input on how this number / formulas translate in real world, that way he can use the info that he has obtained to setup his car.

I have a book that talks about this, will try to dig it from its grave, and see if I can scan some of the pages that are relevant.