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Re: Double wishbone suspension vs. macpherson strut
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Thu, 31 March 2005 22:25
 
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I thought that if you need pimping presence then you gotta strut and bone?
Seriously though, as far as I know (having been involved in the design of a double whishbone suspension on a racecar). The reason for using macpherson struts is that they package extremely well in a passenger car, are cheap to manufacture and offer quite good geometry.
Using double wishbone setup allows much greater freedom to play with the geometry of the suspension (such as camber curve design and roll centre placement among other things). It usually turns out to yield a smaller unsprung mass (because macpherson struts inherently have the shock etc as unsprung and double whish bone can use pull/pushrods).
I'm sure there are other reasons why they are better too..
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Double wishbone suspension vs. macpherson strut
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BlackSupra | Thu, 31 March 2005 09:33 |
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Rex_Kelway | Thu, 31 March 2005 10:25 |
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RWDboy | Thu, 31 March 2005 12:11 |
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BlackSupra | Thu, 31 March 2005 12:12 |
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THE WITZL | Thu, 31 March 2005 22:11 |
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bbaacchhyy | Thu, 31 March 2005 22:26 |
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RobertoX | Thu, 31 March 2005 22:25 |
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Joshstix | Fri, 01 April 2005 01:10 |
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RobertoX | Fri, 01 April 2005 01:48 |
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gold28 | Fri, 01 April 2005 03:56 |
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HyDrA | Sat, 02 April 2005 07:22 |
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gold28 | Sun, 03 April 2005 00:12 |
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