Well, I've been goofing off long enough, and so I'd better share a few of the titles I've added to my library:

New Directions in Suspension Design: Making the Fast Car Faster  Colin Campbell  Good for engineers - as is Miliken - but small enough to carry along and read and review.

How to Build Motorcycle-engined Racing Cars Tony Pashley  Not so much a suspension book, but does cover a lot of basics - like upright design etc as part of a How-To for making a race car.

High Speed - Low Cost Alan Staniforth -- AHHH this one is a treaasure!  Alan was an RAF navigator and then took up race car design - fancy that.  And this book covers the design and build of his Terripin series of race cars that were very popular in the UK.  He "invented" the String Computer - and shows how to make one in this book.  He has since passed on to another place - but I've spoken with his daughter several tiomes, and then and bought a set of his plans for an open wheel racer - Terrapin - as a tribute.  It is on my list of things to do!
 
Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics  SAE (compliation) - again an engineering approach to a number of topics Not as comprehensive as Milliken's wiorks - but a set of smaller articles that were published by SAE and compiled in a Hardcover.

Race and Rally Car Sourcebook: The Guide to Building and Modifying a Competition Car  Allan Staniforth (again), an otther of Alan';s works.  It covers some nice bits and pieces, but not as nice as his:
Competition Car Suspension: Design, Construction, Tuning - this one has a lot of information and I probably have 30 post-it and dogeared pages in this one!

Racing and Sports Car Chassis Design - Michael Costin - Focused on Chassis Design -- but it starts with the Tyres/wheels and Suspension!  He and Terry take you through teh basics and then start with a blank sheet of paper.  Nice discussions of CG, Anti-Dive/Anti-Squat etc too.

How to Make Your Muscle Car Handle Mark Savitske -- Mark is a great guy and fun to talk to.  He has a bunch of stories.  He is based roughly in the PA/NJ/NY area he has a great handle on front suspensions as well, supporting a number of autocrossers, etc.  My front suspension is now SPC tubular A-Arm (uppers) with extended ball joints.  Waiting to run. 

The Race Car Chassis  Design, Structures and Materials for Road, Drag and Circle Track Open- andClosed-Wheel Chassis  -- Forbes Aird - a bit like Herb Adams's  Chassis Engineering, but a useful companion,

Advanced Race Car Suspension Development -- Steve Smith  This one also has a bunch of sticky notes and bent pages. 
Also his, The Trans Am and Corvette Chassis, Design/Theory/Construction phamplet is a good find with a nice summary of some of the key topics. 


I'll caution you - some of these can be VERY expensive, but if you shop around and are patient you can find some excellent values. And get smarter in the process -- if you read them.  I find myself re-reading again and again.  I've felt like I've had an opportunity to brush up my earlier engineering degrees (Aero/Mechanical) and Systems Engineering and work towards an unofficial PhD on the IRS.  But I'm clearly no where near that.   I've been also reading and reviewing a number of Aero texts but that would be for a different forum. 

Cheers - Jim

Last edited by phantomjock (5/21/2013 2:50 pm)