Motorsports Suspension Testing

Suspension Tuning to Go Faster

If you’re a racer, the bottom line is to go faster, Morse Measurements provides powerful tools to tune your racecar suspension more quickly and in a more informed manner than your competitors. Suspension K&C testing will allow you to tune your suspension system at the highest level.

For less than the cost of a single track test day, Morse Measurements helps you understand exactly how your suspension and steering respond to all the forces and motion seen on the race track (cornering, braking, tractive, roll, bump, etc.) for any range of tuning on the car (roll centers, anti-squat, anti-dive, Ackermann, springs, anti-roll bars, etc.).

At RCR, kinematics and compliance testing is an integral part of our chassis, steering and suspension development programs.

Testing at Morse Measurements’ facility has proven to give us accurate data in an efficient manner. Their competent staff is also very flexible and accommodating and will assist in the development of special test methodologies to fit a specific need.

Additionally, in the incredibly competitive business of Sprint Cup racing, the high level of confidentiality, integrity and work ethic of the staff is never questioned and is greatly appreciated.

Kent A. Day, PhD.

Technical Director, Richard Childress Racing

Feed the actual forces and motions experienced on-track (including steering inputs/loads) into the car on Morse Measurement’s $3 million K&C test machine. It is the only independent, commercially available K&C test machine in North America that can apply cornering, braking, and tractive forces at the tire contact while acquiring over 300 channels of highly accurate suspension measurements.

Feeding in the actual forces causes flex, even in high-end racing cars, leading to dramatically different results than computer models. Our relentless development has led to powerful analysis and reporting tools, unparalleled in the industry, that provide accurate and detailed results in real-time. We can provide customized results such as data for trackside tables or inputs for vehicle dynamics simulations.

I would never engineer a new car without taking it to Morse Measurements first. What I learn in one or two days there would take all season to learn on the track. When it gets right down to it a race engineer is guessing on what to change to make the car faster. The way Morse Measurements presents the data from their K&C rig gives me data I can use and understand in a format any racing mechanic or engineer is used to looking at. With this data, there are fewer things I have to guess about. And for cases where I do have to guess, I’m now making an educated guess.

I really don’t want the competition to know about Morse Measurements and what they do and how well they do it because I have been getting an advantage for years by going there. But they are such good guys and do such good work its time for the rest of the world to benefit from what they do.

Jeff Braun

Owner, Transact Race Engineering Inc.

This data is totally different from that generated on 7-post shaker rigs and the two complement each other well. We take confidentiality very seriously and have an established record of helping leading race teams across the country.

Don’t wait to learn how K&C testing will help you run faster off the truck.

Suspension Tuning to Go Faster

For less than the cost of a single track test day, Morse Measurements helps you understand exactly how your suspension and steering respond to all the forces and motion seen on the race track (cornering, braking, tractive, roll, bump, etc.) for any range of tuning on the car (roll centers, anti-squat, anti-dive, Ackermann, springs, anti-roll bars, etc.).

At RCR, kinematics and compliance testing is an integral part of our chassis, steering and suspension development programs.

Additionally, in the incredibly competitive business of Sprint Cup racing, the high level of confidentiality, integrity and work ethic of the staff is never questioned and is greatly appreciated.

Kent A. Day, PhD.

Technical Director, Richard Childress Racing