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Suspension Skitter Yaeger Suspension Skitter Yaeger

Simple Kinematic Philosophies

Suspension Geometry

  • Controls Toe Angle Movement

  • Controls Camber Gain

  • Controls Ride Height Movement

  • Good geometry gives the springs, dampers, and anti-roll bars more influence than the geometry itself

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IC Powertrain Billy Godbold IC Powertrain Billy Godbold

Dynamic Valve Event Optimization

The approach to understand what makes an engine run well is to look at the opening and closing of each valve. But whatever you want the valves to do, they’re actually doing something else, because you always have: Deflection, Inertia, and Vibration.

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