Chassis and Suspension
Our 2013 Chassis Team has the function of designing the chassis so it is rigid and safe, yet lightweight. In order to obtain a well engineering chassis, all designing must be completed around the same time packaging including powertrain and drivetrain components, a 95th percentile driver, pedal box, and suspension components are also completed. The design phase revolves around all of these items while still abiding by the rules and regulation changes set forth by the Formula SAE committee!
Our 2013 Suspension Team has the function of designing a damping system that will be able to achieve optimum handling characteristics! The four-wheel independent suspension will enable our Formula Car to comply with bumps and dips in the road, while still allowing it accelerate hard out of the corners during the autocross and endurance events. Our 2013 suspension system is composed of un-parallel and unequal length double wishbone front and rear suspension, tuneable Kaz Technologies-Penske dampers on all four corners, variable toe control, active anti-roll bars, and a full data acquisition system.
Chassis / Suspension: | |
 | Brandon Abbott (Suspension Lead) babbott@ltu.edu |
 | Mike Barnhart (Body/Chassis and Electrical Lead) mikebarnhart88@gmail.com |
 | Kyle Neighbors |
| | Gurinder Wazir (Suspension Assistant – Data Acquisition) gwazir@ltu.edu |
| | Kalyan Nellepalle knellepal@ltu.edu |
| | Vikrant Varandani vvarandan@ltu.edu |
| | Josh Harrison (Suspension Assistant) runytrun@comcast.net |
| | Eric Micallef (Suspsesion Assisant) micallef25@comcast.net |
 | Tom Stellmach (Cad and Chassis Assistant) tomstellmach@gmail.com |
| | Roxana Hasanat (Media and Design/Body) rhasanat@ltu.edu |