Yeah, been here since the start but not been on for a good while due not doing anything with this project but i've got back onto the job over christmas, finished stripping the donor that's been sat outside my workshop for 2 years!
Back to your problem I fitted mk1 Golf front suspension to the front of my grasser Mini, to do this I cut the entire front from a Golf in the scrappy & stripped the bits I wanted from it. I then made a jig that picked up on all the suspension points on the shell & used it to get the mounts in the right place.
This would of course just give you the MR2 geometry but I'd think Toyota did'nt do a bad job. Of course to do this you'd need a scrap MR2 shell to make the jig on & yours is... BUGGER!
Books wise I've got Competition Car Suspension by Allan Staniforth, I did'nt get away with that too well but it's rated by others (must be me eh?).
I found Racing & Sportscar Chassis Design by Michael Costin & David Phipps better, it's an old book but the laws of physics aint changed! You'll have to find a S/H copy as it long out of print, it turns up on Ebay often enough.
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7th January 2009, 11:58 PM
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