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    Quote Originally Posted by I_dont_know_what_im_doing View Post
    Cant you give me general damping and spring values for a 280kg car
    Yes, I can. But the idea is for you to learn, not for me to show you that I have already learned.

    You have other resources. Google is your friend. In the past some teams have posted their design reports on their team websites, or have quoted suspension values on a "specifications" page. Some digging will give you rough values. Some papers on FSAE vehicles also have suspension values. And some of those can be found via links or references buried in these fsae.com forums.

    You have that "I need a number now and don't want to think about it or learn anything" sound, which concerns me. At least you're persistent in asking questions. Above are a few more ways for you to find the information you're seeking. Let's refocus your persistence into a good internet search session. You can get there from here.

    And note: Information isn't knowledge. The latter will take time and effort to develop. You have a very short term goal, but our educational goals are on a much longer timescale. Someone may throw you the value you seek, and that's up to them, but engineering is about knowledge and understanding. Unless you have a context for the values you find you will have nothing more than ballpark numbers.

    Edit: Matt, you beat me to it! At least we said a lot of the same things.
    Last edited by Edward M. Kasprzak; 02-21-2014 at 02:53 PM. Reason: Matt types faster than I do.
    Dr. Edward M. Kasprzak
    President: EMK Vehicle Dynamics, LLC
    Associate: Milliken Research Associates, Inc.
    Co-Director: FSAE Tire Test Consortium
    Lecturer: SAE Industrial Lecture Program
    FSAE Design Judge

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