Quote Originally Posted by BillCobb View Post
If you want to be on top of the Vehicle Dynamics game, learn something about nonlinear partial differential equations, the methods to solve them, the ways to characterize their response traits and the means to synthesize a system from known foundation properties that achieves targeted goals.

Otherwise, this subject matter Forum is probably just Vehicle Statics. (Just doesn't sound as cool though, does it ?)
I recently finished a 5 dof multibody tire/suspension/chassis model that i used lagrange's equation to solve and simulink to model. Only 2D though... It was a great learning experience. The equations are very tedious to write, easy to make mistakes, and time consuming to track down mistakes. But, in the end, not all that difficult to do. Although, during the process i found myself wondering if it was even worth it - maybe I would be better off spending my time learning Adams instead.