Where is the COG located on the various variants of this car? Has anyone done the measurements and the calculations?
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Gary
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Gary
If you know the height of your front and rear suspension roll centres, that gives you the car roll axis. The distance of the CofG from this roll axis determines some of the roll behaviour during cornering. It is a bit like metacentric height in ships, relating their CofG (as I recall) to their centre of displacement.
The inclination of the roll axis (plus the relative spring stiffness front to rear) then affects the weight transfer front and rear during cornering. All interesting stuff.
Not exactly. While the roll axis has an effect on suspension jacking and the amount the chassis rolls, there's no change in the real weight transfer from acceleration and cornering. The moments from those forces must be translated into actual weight transfer. No way to get around the free-body analysis...