Some great suspension tuning info- Thanks Carroll Smith RIP

[Mr Ree]

Such awesome information here.

Thanks for posting this up 13 years ago, Muz.

[jonesisabella3]

Excellent..! Thanks for sharing the above useful guidelines.

[Billzilla]

Um, when it starts working again ... http://www.bevenyoung.com.au/

You can safely buy everything Smith has ever written and learn a lot from it.

There's a cheaper place now ...
www.abebooks.com
I've bought a lot of books from them, very cheap and lots to choose from.

[cheapracer]

Thanks for your time and effort Muz.

[Old Major]

http://www.carrollsmith.com/books/purchase.html

http://www.carrollsmith.com/books/boxedset.html

Boxed set for the win- $100 US plus shipping for every book he wrote.

Jsut noticed the sae released a compilation he was working on when he passed away, photocopies of 15 sae papers on chassis and suspension design. $100 just for that! They're acting like it's a 'tribute' to him. Wankers...

That is where I got mine from.

[jmac]

I can only add a 'me too' for the recommendations on his tune to win, engineer to win, drive to win and screw to win (which is possibly 'actually' listed as the book on fasteners )


Drive to win is probably the most amusing (though the humour is likely subtle and mild for most people's tastes, I liked it) and for 95% of us if we were only allowed one of his books, tune to win would be the one. there's absolutely bugger all in it that is 'dated'. Perhaps a little about tyre and shock absorbers, but it's very obvious as to where things have headed, and how to still be able to optimally apply everything he discusses in a modern context. Absolutely brilliant.

[Nero]

yep, tech bookshop in vic has it...not worth the money IMHO

[BigMuz]

http://www.carrollsmith.com/books/purchase.html

http://www.carrollsmith.com/books/boxedset.html

Boxed set for the win- $100 US plus shipping for every book he wrote.

Jsut noticed the sae released a compilation he was working on when he passed away, photocopies of 15 sae papers on chassis and suspension design. $100 just for that! They're acting like it's a 'tribute' to him. Wankers...

[Billzilla]

Where does one find Carroll Smiths books? Amazon?

Um, when it starts working again ... http://www.bevenyoung.com.au/

You can safely buy everything Smith has ever written and learn a lot from it.

[Bob Saget]

Where does one find Carroll Smiths books? Amazon?

[Nero]

"engineer in your pocket"?

[AlexinPerth]

Nice, thanks Muz. Gotta book another tuning day now, try some of these changes!

Alex.

[edo]

lol, I think I paid $30 for a book that had all that in it. Its got lots more too, worth buying...only trouble is I cant remember which one it was!

[2JZR31]

Thanks Muz.

[BigMuz]

I just looked for an email from a bloke and found it- I'd forgotten it completely!

It really is awesome. The basis of it is open wheel cars from the eighties which is what Carroll was doing as a race engineer, however, the gist of it is true for all motorsport cars.

Glad you enjoyed it!