Hi David, please tag me or quote my post, otherwise I don't get notified of your reply, I don't watch this thread.
On topic:
The physics files include instrinsic information for identifying & estimating the driving kinematics and driving dynamics of a car and provide key data points necessary for designing and calculating the 'ideal' setup for a particular car/track combination.
I want to know:
- Look up tables for CL/CD for all aerodynamic parts for cross-reference with test results and setup calculations
- Chord, Span values for wings
- a car's polar inertia
- Actual values (in SI units or imperial) for ARB, Dampers, Spring rates/Wheel rates
- Motion ratios (!)
- Suspension types (Torsion bar, DWB, etc)
- Travel ranges, Packer ranges in units in setup screen
- Bumpstop rates in units in setup screen
- Toe values in units in setup screen
- Tyres: wear curves, performance curves, angular intertia, base spring rate and spring rate gain per psi per tyre compound of front/rear, tyre flex, camber gain with slip angle, friction limit angle, ideal pressure value, hub mass
- wheelbases
- CG locations
for calculation/ empirical testing of:
- CL/CD values dependant of AOA
- Wing efficiencies
- Rake angles
- Spring rates, wheel rates
- Roll gradients, roll rates, roll inertia of sprung mass
- Damping ratios, damping curves
- Transmissibility values
- Pitch frequencies & ratios
- Min/max slip angles
- etc
Regarding "Wheel rates and even damper settings are easy to estimate using one of the dev apps",
what app are you refering to? (suspension app?) And how would you estimate wheel rates, damper settings or any other setup criteria using it?