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OK so I'm working on a spreadsheet to help calculate ideal spring rates, sway bar dimensions, and other settings. I wanted to know if others on this forum have attempted it before and had any advice. The general idea was selecting your desired or design frequency, and then selecting springs and sway bar settings or dimensions that get you to those ride and wheel rates. You would also want to stay away from your natural frequencies and make sure that the sway bar makes up a good percentage of the total roll resistance so that it is easier to adjust while you tune. Making some assumptions about friction also have it calculate how close to an oversteer/ understeer condition you are. Or another method is just add a 5% safety factor in roll resistance to the front or rear to ensure an understeer condition.
Here is screenshoot of what I have so far, when it's done I'l post it up here. So any thoughts, comments or experience is welcome
Here is screenshoot of what I have so far, when it's done I'l post it up here. So any thoughts, comments or experience is welcome