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      08-10-2019, 01:26 PM   #23
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The main reason to use both M3 suspension links is bc the bushings are much more robust and don't allow for any deflection. I think this is what "fixed" my bumpsteer from the rear suspension. Btw... I already had M3 rear subframe bushings before any of these parts were installed.

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Yeah, I was just saying part #17 actually has the same bushings as the OEM arm. Arm #18 is the one that has the bearing upgrade.

Still, even with the same bushings, the M3 arm #17 still looks way cooler and is a little lighter.
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Check out the OE vs M3 control arms thread. There's a new product in the works for toe arms that would allow you to go full spherical (in that part) with no deflection or Group N bushings for minimal deflection plus some spring rate contribution....

OE vs M3 Rear Suspension Arms
https://www.1addicts.com/forums/show....php?t=1079383



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Yeah, I was just saying part #17 actually has the same bushings as the OEM arm. Arm #18 is the one that has the bearing upgrade.

Still, even with the same bushings, the M3 arm #17 still looks way cooler and is a little lighter.

???

The factory 135i rear suspension parts are cheap stamped steel with a steel insert that sits inside a soft rubber bushing.

The M3/1M bits are light alloy arms with a hard bearing pressed into the arm. The black rubber is quite hard compared to the 135i bits.

The differences are night and day.




Some pics for reference, from the interwebs....
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???

The factory 135i rear suspension parts are cheap stamped steel with a steel insert that sits inside a soft rubber bushing.

The M3/1M bits are light alloy arms with a hard bearing pressed into the arm. The black rubber is quite hard compared to the 135i bits.

The differences are night and day.




Some pics for reference, from the interwebs....
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non M and ///M rear suspension...
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stock 135i suspension...
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Oh, I guess you haven’t seen the classic fe1rx thread. Check it out below. He tested all of it, and despite being made of steel, the OEM arms have the same strength as the aluminum ones, albeit uglier and a little heavier. The bushings/bearings of the the 1M wishbone (upper) arms (#17) are also the same as OEM, so, from a performance perspective, the guide rods (#18) and toe arms are the only things that need to be upgraded, weight not withstanding.

You can even see in your pic above that the OEM wishbone arms have a bearing on one side and bushing in the other.

https://www.1addicts.com/forums/show....php?t=1079383

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Those roll centre change and camber gain/loss graphs are fantastic, particularly on the front end. The interplay between a linear loss in camber and an accelerating roll center drop (and its affect on weight transfer front to rear) would be good to understand in depth - or just take home that controlling roll is important for predictable high speed cornering behaviour.
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The principal dimensions for the chassis related to the front suspension are shown in the figure below. For design purposes, front camber of -3.0° was selected, and a caster angle of 7.3°. These settings establish the strut top position for design purposes, which is assumed to be adjustable by means of a camber/caster plate.

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To complete the picture up front we also need the geometry of the steering knuckle, strut and suspension arms.

The true length of the suspension arms (ball-to-ball) requires some careful setup to measure.

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Measuring the steering knuckle must be done with particular precision due to the close proximity of the various pivot points. This required disassembly of the steering knuckle, installation of spherical targets (recovered from actual suspension components to ensure proper geometry).

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A spherical target makes it easy to find the exact centre of rotation of each pivot location. I used a dial indicator to centre on each ball, and a digital readout on the vertical mill to find the location of each ball in x-x-z space. Desired accuracy is ±0.2 mm.

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The front strut has its own coordinate system (as specified in SusProg3D), centered on the wheel hub mounting surface. The assembly is measured with no camber or caster.

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With this data we can create both a CAD model and a SusProg3D model to visualize and characterize the suspension. The dual ball joint design of our front suspensions actually steers about a virtual lower ball joint that moves continuously with respect to the knuckle during both steering and vertical motion. Using CAD to find the virtual ball joint location for the one design condition is difficult but not impossible. Using it to solve for the location at a variety of suspension height is definitely impractical. Luckily SusProg3D handles this task with ease. Having both the CAD and SusProg3D models is useful to provide a cross check for logical consistency.

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To complete the model, the following additional data is required:

Initial Wheel and Tire data: I chose 18” x 8.5” ET45 wheels with tires with a rolling radius of 312 mm. These can easily be changed later in the SusProg3D model if desired.

Initial ride height: I chose 640 mm from ground to wheel well datum (corresponding to 328 mm wheel centre plus 312 mm rolling radius). Again once the model is established, ride height can be altered at will.
fe1rx, firstly a massive thank you for sharing so much of your hard work with us! I'm using your data to create a CAD model of my E91 suspension - I don't have the time, facilities, tools or even patience to get all these measurements myself, and your work is clearly so much better than mine could be.

Not meaning to look a gift horse in the mouth, I think I've found an error somewhere in your front suspension measurements:

Firstly, entering the coordinates for the front upright/strut into cad, I find that the angle between the strut and the hub flange is actually 8.38deg. I've gone through the coordinates multiple times, but can't find my error.

Inserting this component into an assembly with the front arms and chassis pickup points, along with the -3deg of camber, I find that the top strut point is some 21.25mm shy of the chassis coordinate in that location. The strut top point is nearly vertically below the chassis point; I aligned the plane of the front axle/strut with the chassis point, so that the strut/hub was constrained from rotating. I get 6.95deg caster. These measurements assume 0deg toe, though that can't account for all the discrepancy.

I'm sure the issue is just a typo somewhere, otherwise the diagrams you've posted would look significantly different, but I thought I should share at least this part of my findings in case it helps you or anyone else fix an error.

EDIT: I think the error is in the strut top coordinate, in the hub/strut model; I think this should be 0.0, 222.1, 442.5 instead of 0.0, 222.1, 422.5.

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      06-19-2020, 12:44 PM   #29
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fe1rx, firstly a massive thank you for sharing so much of your hard work with us! I'm using your data to create a CAD model of my E91 suspension - I don't have the time, facilities, tools or even patience to get all these measurements myself, and your work is clearly so much better than mine could be.

Not meaning to look a gift horse in the mouth, I think I've found an error somewhere in your front suspension measurements:

Firstly, entering the coordinates for the front upright/strut into cad, I find that the angle between the strut and the hub flange is actually 8.38deg. I've gone through the coordinates multiple times, but can't find my error.

Inserting this component into an assembly with the front arms and chassis pickup points, along with the -3deg of camber, I find that the top strut point is some 21.25mm shy of the chassis coordinate in that location. The strut top point is nearly vertically below the chassis point; I aligned the plane of the front axle/strut with the chassis point, so that the strut/hub was constrained from rotating. I get 6.95deg caster. These measurements assume 0deg toe, though that can't account for all the discrepancy.

I'm sure the issue is just a typo somewhere, otherwise the diagrams you've posted would look significantly different, but I thought I should share at least this part of my findings in case it helps you or anyone else fix an error.

EDIT: I think the error is in the strut top coordinate, in the hub/strut model; I think this should be 0.0, 222.1, 442.5 instead of 0.0, 222.1, 422.5.
Good catch! You are right, the strut top at ride height should be 442.5. Those balloons with the dimensions were populated manually so it as a typo. Thankfully when I entered the dimensions into SusProg3D I got them correct.

I really appreciate your double checking my work though.
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      06-20-2020, 07:51 AM   #30
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Good good! I'm sure you would also have found it, if you'd used the wrong numbers yourself...

Next question; that coordinate for the top of the strut - where is that in relation to the top flange of the strut mount/camber plate, where it bolts up to the chassis, please? I assume the coordinates refer to the centre point of the rubber bushing where the strut attaches to the mount, but in order to get useful geometry for my purposes I need to know where that is relative to the chassis attachment.

I've got a functional model in CAD now, but I just need to know that one bit of information in order to transpose it for the e90/1. (And I'm just going to change the rear ride height by the same amount as the front, and pretend that's accurate).

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Good good! I'm sure you would also have found it, if you'd used the wrong numbers yourself...

Next question; that coordinate for the top of the strut - where is that in relation to the top flange of the strut mount/camber plate, where it bolts up to the chassis, please? I assume the coordinates refer to the centre point of the rubber bushing where the strut attaches to the mount, but in order to get useful geometry for my purposes I need to know where that is relative to the chassis attachment.

I've got a functional model in CAD now, but I just need to know that one bit of information in order to transpose it for the e90/1. (And I'm just going to change the rear ride height by the same amount as the front, and pretend that's accurate).

Thanks!
I have revised the strut image to show the strut and spring compressed, and added the location of the mounting flange, which should clarify that the top dimension you were asking about is centred on the rubber bushing a you assumed. Note that my geometry includes a 10 mm spacer where the strut buts up against the upright. You have probably noted that I added this to increase my ride height while eliminating the need to add spring preload. Also, I am using a custom camber plate (based on a Ground Control street plate, but taller and angled to align the spring axis with the strut axis), so the dimensions I have provided are unique to my setup. The basic strut dimensions are Ohlins, of course. To the extent your setup differs, you will need to adjust your strut and camber plate / top fitting geometries. If you are using the original strut top fitting, note that the rubber deflection of this part under static loading is significant (about 5 mm) and needs to be accounted for too.

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Thanks a lot! That's super helpful.

Unfortunately I'm getting lost now.

I've measured my struts, top mount flange (@ chassis) to the top datum of the knuckle; 466 at full droop; 367.6 at ride height.
Using a measurement from your Ohlins install thread (372 top mount flange to knuckle datum @ 326mm ride height; 2mm lower than these geometry measurements), the top mount flange to knuckle datum for this setup should be 373.92.
Now, my car has stock non-sport springs, koni special active struts, and Xd top mounts...I seriously doubt it's lower (367.6 vs 373.9) than your track setup! I thought I could just plug in your coordinates, adjust based on strut length @ ride height, and arrive at my geometry...but it's not worked out.

I don't really think that the wheel arch/fender reference will be the same on both chassis, but at this stage I think I might have to use it. Ride height on mine is 354; 26mm higher than yours to the arch...that sounds like the right ballpark. And I doubt that the fenders are as much as 30mm-ish higher relative to the suspension points on the e90/1. Come to think of it, how sure am I that all the suspension points transfer 100% between the two cars?

Time for me to take stock, and figure out a better way to get my model set up

All this just for some spreadsheet fun in the evenings, while I contemplate shoehorning M3 springs into the front of my car

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Eventually figured I could just measure the Z height of a reference point front in each of the front and rear (wishbone inner end at the front, and camber arm inner end at the rear). I measured from a string line under the tyres, with the wheels up on a couple of 1" boards just to make sure the string line was off the ground.

At some point I'll need to go back through the whole model and check it all, but for now I'm content that it's giving me reasonable figures. Magic number spreadsheet is coming together now...just a few bumps to iron out.

Thanks again, fe1rx for the data!
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Eventually figured I could just measure the Z height of a reference point front in each of the front and rear (wishbone inner end at the front, and camber arm inner end at the rear). I measured from a string line under the tyres, with the wheels up on a couple of 1" boards just to make sure the string line was off the ground.

At some point I'll need to go back through the whole model and check it all, but for now I'm content that it's giving me reasonable figures. Magic number spreadsheet is coming together now...just a few bumps to iron out.

Thanks again, fe1rx for the data!
You are welcome.

Good to see that you are cross checking your assumptions against real world measurements. This is definitely essential!
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fe1rx Amazing thread and I am slowly trying to wrap my head around it piece by piece. I did have a question about the ride height. It looks like you used 328mm for the front and rear. Based on this is it fair to assume the wheel arches to hub center are the same front to rear when at 0 rake?

I am trying to dial in my ride heights and i wanted to start a 0 rake for the track and go from there. Would all i need to do is make sure my hub center to wheel arch is the same front to rear?
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fe1rx Amazing thread and I am slowly trying to wrap my head around it piece by piece. I did have a question about the ride height. It looks like you used 328mm for the front and rear. Based on this is it fair to assume the wheel arches to hub center are the same front to rear when at 0 rake?

I am trying to dial in my ride heights and i wanted to start a 0 rake for the track and go from there. Would all i need to do is make sure my hub center to wheel arch is the same front to rear?
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To answer your question, we need a clear idea understanding of what datum feature rake is measured from. The simplest approach is simply to define zero rake as equal wheel-arch ride height front and back, which makes the answer to your question "yes" by definition.

The way I actually look at it is to treat the 4 jack pad attachment points as points on the rake reference plane. My aero underbody does use the jack pad attachment points as attachment features and my underbody centre section is parallel to that plane, so that definition seems logical for aerodynamic purposes.

Using this reference plane, when the wheel arch ride heights are the same front and back, the jack pad reference plane is positively raked by 0.6° or 27 mm when measured between axles. You would have to lower the rear by 27 mm to achieve zero rake using the jack pads to define the datum plane.

At the moment I am running 0.4° rake relative to the wheel arches, which is 1° relative to the jack pad (aero) datum.

This is probably way too much information ...

The most useful rake definition is probably the one that is most easily measurable. I suggest that you stick with the wheel arch datums, but realize that that does give your underbody a bit of rake. Also, lowering your rear to get zero aero rake would put you hard on your rear bump stops.
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fe1rx Amazing thread and I am slowly trying to wrap my head around it piece by piece. I did have a question about the ride height. It looks like you used 328mm for the front and rear. Based on this is it fair to assume the wheel arches to hub center are the same front to rear when at 0 rake?

I am trying to dial in my ride heights and i wanted to start a 0 rake for the track and go from there. Would all i need to do is make sure my hub center to wheel arch is the same front to rear?
Thanks.

To answer your question, we need a clear idea understanding of what datum feature rake is measured from. The simplest approach is simply to define zero rake as equal wheel-arch ride height front and back, which makes the answer to your question "yes" by definition.

The way I actually look at it is to treat the 4 jack pad attachment points as points on the rake reference plane. My aero underbody does use the jack pad attachment points as attachment features and my underbody centre section is parallel to that plane, so that definition seems logical for aerodynamic purposes.

Using this reference plane, when the wheel arch ride heights are the same front and back, the jack pad reference plane is positively raked by 0.6° or 27 mm when measured between axles. You would have to lower the rear by 27 mm to achieve zero rake using the jack pads to define the datum plane.

At the moment I am running 0.4° rake relative to the wheel arches, which is 1° relative to the jack pad (aero) datum.

This is probably way too much information ...

The most useful rake definition is probably the one that is most easily measurable. I suggest that you stick with the wheel arch datums, but realize that that does give your underbody a bit of rake. Also, lowering your rear to get zero aero rake would put you hard on your rear bump stops.
That's actually extremely helpful and exactly what I was seeing which led to my question. My arches are equally but my jack pads were not. Based on the handling characteristic from my last track day I swore I had to have had a decent amount of rake. Thanks so much for the help.
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Hi, that is a great project and I can still learn a lot from it in 2023!
I want to do the same thing on an M4 F82. When I read your description, I don't understand why the laser plumb bob is necessary. As a traditional plumb bob can also put the projection on the ground and mark on the tape.
If you can kindly reply, i will really appreciate it.
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Fe1rx, did you publish the strut top coords at any point?
I saw the photo of you running a plumb line down so assume you took at least the x/y coord?

I’m running an E81 130i and trying to determine the base configuration.
From what I can see I can derive everything else from what you’ve very kindly shared, but without the strut top constraint (yours is set at -3deg camber and 7.3deg caster), it’s hard to create a model of the standard setup.

I could of course use the 130i alignment data to feed in camber and caster to derive the top mount xy position, but it’d be good to know the inherent camber/caster with the real measured constraint you have.

Thanks for any help

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Fe1rx, did you publish the strut top coords at any point?
I saw the photo of you running a plumb line down so assume you took at least the x/y coord?

I’m running an E81 130i and trying to determine the base configuration.
From what I can see I can derive everything else from what you’ve very kindly shared, but without the strut top constraint (yours is set at -3deg camber and 7.3deg caster), it’s hard to create a model of the standard setup.

I could of course use the 130i alignment data to feed in camber and caster to derive the top mount xy position, but it’d be good to know the inherent camber/caster with the real measured constraint you have.

Thanks for any help

Dave
This is extracted from my CAD model and it should be compared to the figure in my 2nd post to show the relative location of the centre of the strut towers. My vertical dimension in the original figure is not the strut top, but the pivot point of the camber plate. On my camber plates that is about 43 mm below the bottom surface of the strut tower. Therefore the height dimension I show in the 2nd post is about 43 mm lower than the "TBD" dimension in this post.

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Of course my datum point is not a point you are readily going to be able to locate on your own vehicle, so all this needs to be verified by you in some manner.
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That’s very helpful indeed, many thanks for taking the time!

I’ll draw things up wrt 130i and do some confirming measurements and add them back here for reference, once I get around to it all.
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