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Old 07-13-2017, 08:54 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by JoeC View Post
thanks. some interesting reading there. The roll center is still over my head...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_center

Simply put, it is the point, or axis, that the car rolls around, when cornering. It gets more complicated, once you put dynamics into it, and the roll center starts to migrate.


Some suspension engineers design around it, others nearly ignore it. I've worked with both.
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