>
> Nice picture, but it does leave out a potentially important factor:
> Roll inertia. If your moment of inertia about the roll axis is high,
> and the car develops significant angular velocity during suspension
> travel, when you run out of travel the bump stops may not stop the roll.
> There are several ways to counteract this effect:
> i) the JSY method: smOOOthly initiate and terminate your turnin, so
> that trasient torques along the roll axis are minimized.
> ii) BIG anti-sway bars.
> iii) small moment of iniertia along the roll axis.
>
> i) and ii) above are the oens that generally apply to a vehicle that
> is already in hand, as opposed to "on the drawing board".
>
with apologies to teriann
and iii) means don't put lots of stuff on the roof. Ever watch a fully
loaded Land Rover *navigate* an autox course. Entertaining but
frightening. anti-sway bars? can you say list control (;-) as in *heavy*
weather helm!
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