The Ford GT Suspension Is Unlike Anything Else (Animation)

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[@ricardoboaventura9046]

The Ford GT has always had a special place in my heart since I came across the 2004 model. It struck me like lightning to know that Ford was giving the GT a new incarnation with this model and oh boy, it did not disappoint me. A truly awesome machine. Also, big thanks for explaining this special quirk of it. Keep up the good work in 2018!

[@jenniferwhitewolf3784]

Very clever! And excellent animation too. When I was involved with race car suspension engineering, it was back in the day before and about up to when the push rod and bell-crank had come into common use. The goal was to get unsprung weight down with a coaxial coil spring and damper unit fully on sprung mass, and for open wheel cars, to open the airflow. Moving on to this double compound spring and damper is really something... nice work. Thanks for showing this...

[@maxxjettfilms6322]

Thanks for showing the inner workings of the suspension, super cool how they engineered it.

[@fly72j]

Awesome video, as always! Never would have known these facts about this all-new suspension system.

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Have to echo what is said here. Your series of videos is the highest quality of instruction on cars that I have found. I am humbled and grateful you would share your knowledge so freely. It sets an example for the rest of us.

[@chrisnicholls564]

Wow. All those videos I've watched and articles I've read and none mentioned this unique suspension set-up. Blows my mind. Such clever engineering. Thanks for explaining! :D

[@AlexSchwartzATV]

The complexity of this suspension was so overwhelming my heart started to beat faster.

[@FedericoLucchi]

Mine stopped... I'm recovering in hospital now, cheers!

[@USA4thewin]

You need to see a doctor

[@peterjones6945]

? it's a simple matter of packaging. Getting into 'mass centralisation would be more interesting but even that would be relatively simple with longer link rods

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[@royferntorp3575]

Thankyou very much. I tried to figure it all out in my head. The torsion bars explain everything.

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Every time, its a treat to watch your video, for those in depth analysis ... bless you ...

[@fraserhenderson7839]

Thanks for explicating this unique mechanism! I understood the concept but now I have seen it working and I think it is absolutely brilliant engineering.

[@pauljs75]

Interesting. I wonder if that suspension mechanism could be used in a totally different application? By using a bell crank (or rocker - same thing), it changes the thrust angle for the springs and shock. So it might be usable on a truck or SUV to effectively have the equivalent of springs and shocks that are double in length in a smaller space. This means you'd have significantly more usable interior space. (Pistons running parallel to the interior walls instead of intruding inward. Look at how most racing off-road vehicles are built with suspension going to the inside, and that's not always practical.) Then the limitations for off-road may be that of interference angles between the parts, changing the geometry somewhat while using this idea could still help with that.

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Just some light criticism: It would be helpful to make the cursor a bright color when using it to point out pieces on a digital rendering of an assembly like that. The black cursor got a little difficult to see amongst the gray of the assembly. Other than that, I love your videos! Keep 'em coming!

[@RootsandTendrils]

Downright ingenious. Thanks for the Vid.

[@MichaelCarmichael]

Thanks for this excellent explanation of this fascinating suspension.

[@OhighOSkater]

The Ford GT is a work of art. Definitely a dream car of mine

[@powersliding]

the hydraulic lock simply compresses the coild spring until there is no more travel for the coil unit, locking it....thats why the car goes low leaving the torsion bar to keep suspension load. its brilliant for being so simple yet effective giving a jekyll and hyde set up from a press of a button

[@d0718]

Jason, your videos are amazing. Thank you.

[@rdenzie]

Great explanation on how the suspension works, but I'm curious, do you have any more details about how the actuator locks out the coil spring?

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Fascinating. Great explanation, that's why I'm subscribed. Keep the great videos coming!

[@sacooper802]

looks like solidworks model. ive been a SW CAD operator since version 98. and still love it to to this day

[@RadicalEagle]

Thanks for the great video! I have to admit suspension components have always been kinda abstract to me (not as much as electrical...) and this is the first time it really "clicked" in my head as to how a torsion bar works.

[@PistonsAndPetrol]

The torsion bar as a spring is so counter intuitive but brilliant. Great explanation!

[@DrewLSsix]

Pistons & Petrol. Not at all, cars and trucks used torsion bars for decades. Even coil springs are essentially tortion bars in action, just wound into a convenient package.

[@PistonsAndPetrol]

DrewLSsix torsion bars as a replacement for a spring though? If so that’s really interesting. What cars used that?

[@DrewLSsix]

Pistons & Petrol. Most mid and full sized chryslers from the early 60s to the late 80s, nearly all pickups and SUVs that employed both 4wd and independant front suspensions. My Silverado has coils up front but if it were optioned with 4wd it would have had tortion bars instead. Hondas up til around 1988 used tortion bars in front. Early VWs used them in front and in the rear, later models retained them in the rear, many Porsche cars have used them feom the very earliest models to the 944/924 produced into the 90s. Its been a popular option for lots of European cars over the years, to many for my to list.

[@PistonsAndPetrol]

DrewLSsix makes sense. I’ve only ever been into sport compacts, small hatchbacks and roadsters. None of which have ever had anything like that. Good info and thanks!

[@DrewLSsix]

Pistons & Petrol the closest I can think of in the popular sport compact arena is the early Civic Si, until 87 it was blessed with McPherson struts and torsion bars up front amd a stick axle out back. They are still cool imo, they dont have the double wishbones of the later cars but if you thought an 88+ CRX was a light weight the earlier cars were barely heavier than some motorcycles!

[@Ghost_Hybrid]

Love your channel. Thank you for explaining this interesting engineering creation.

[@angelmuadbid]

Great video, that car was so stylish that I thought for a moment that was a video game.

[@V8Supercar1]

This is some F1 race car technology. Would love to see a comparison of this suspension with what Mclaren uses in their 650s.

[@nodo7575]

Considering 650s is significantly slower than Ford GT on track, nothing as good as this.

[@gringolatino97]

Solid video! Interesting, concise and short!

[@chrisl1398]

Thanks Jason! Enjoy your vids

[@leobuckey]

Engineering Explained, could you do a video on torsion bars and how long they last in comparison to traditional springs? I think you would explain it really well

[@russianrick8403]

this seems like a fairly elegant solution. Thumbs up Ford.

[@petergregory5286]

Don’t you love it when relatively low paid engineers create things of beauty, which this system definitely is. Everything in this world has been touched/improved/invented by Mechanical engineers. Bless ‘em. Discuss! Regards.

[@EngineeringExplained]

Haha it’s certainly a piece of beauty, but don’t doubt that Ford’s suspension engineers aren’t well compensated. I’m sure they do just fine.

[@anthonymolina7416]

Low paid these guys probably have a garage full of cool stuff we can only review in a video.

[@KB-bh9hp]

Peter Gregory I mean I'm pretty sure Ford pays their engineers well. I do agree however that the general public doesn't really appreciate alot of the engineering that goes into making everything around us possible. My grandfather was a mechanical engineer, technically his position within Boeing was known as a propulsion engineer, he helped to develop the engines for the 747 amongst other planes like the 737, 757, and 767 so some pretty cool stuff.

[@nounours2627]

I'm confused with only one thing. It's in the looped GIF. The push rod is pushing a rocker arm that is attach to the electronic damper and to the torsion bar..... AND to the upper arm's rear pivot????? Why and how? (can't see with this low resolution) Congratulation for this video nonetheless. Very clear. Everything (but that) is perfectly explained. :) The animation really helps to understand how it works.

[@EngineeringExplained]

Yes, connected to the rear upper arm pivot, but as you can see it does not move up/down with the upper arm. So it's similar to a strut setup, with a connection to the control arm, spring, and damper all in one.

[@dfgyuhdd]

Pretty cool that they apply pesticide at the factory too. I have a 2001 Civic and it's pretty obvious now that Honda didn't take the time to do that.

[@AkaAndyKnuckles]

Really nice video. I had no idea about this. I also liked the length of this movie. Suits the topic.

[@kyleolin3566]

Actually quite simple considering what it does. Really cool

[@damachine3]

The current Camaro ZL1 1LE is the only other American car that has DSSV dampers. I own one and love it! Track beast!

[@MrHengDoItAll]

I give you tump up before see video.

[@thedarkknight4243]

the spring system could have been simplified by directly connecting the coil spring to the lower control arm to the body of the vehicle and lowered the cost of production. Owning the vehicle will give one high maintenance and replacement cost of the complicated spring system, done only by Ford servicemen and not other mechanics

[@MaxSpd1998]

The ball joints on this setup must have a lot of movement because in the animation the knuckle has no chamber gain despite the torson bar vastly increasing and decreasing in angle.

[@joeman543]

So if you had a bigger hydraulic cylinder, you could get more up/down travel. I don't know about cost, but this seems much cooler than air bag suspension.

[@nickamarit]

This is some crazy awesome stuff!!!

[@shahulhameedsyed9230]

Awesome video jason the animation is too good and lucid. May i know from where did you find the animation

[@EngineeringExplained]

Ford offered permission to use it.

[@BigHeadClan]

Hmm I'm sure those dampers/suspension are amazing on track but MR dampers really are a magical technology... would love to see video on that actually.

[@seven9766]

can you do a video on valveless two stroke engines (mainly used for RC) and why they need an exhaust that creates backpressure at the right time? I have seen your video on why cars dont need back pressure and i agree with you, but such a video could complete why people think engines would need it.

[@jamespisano1164]

Very cool. Would also be cool to see how that suspension differs from other cars, maybe the Mustang GT or some other recognized performance car.

[@Glasseh]

That felt short. Really short.

[@kaburuk]

It was short. But when all the information is included do you really need a longer video ?

[@EngineeringExplained]

Try my best not to include fluff! Sometimes videos require a bit more detail. I specifically chose not to dive into eDSSV because I do not fully understand it yet.

[@buckybarnes3803]

GlassBomb that's what she said, ba dum tssss

[@Angel_EU34]

Like the suspension travel on the lower mode? ;P

[@CarsSimplified]

I like the no-fluff approach. When I am looking to learn, I want to learn about the subject, not what the guy in the video is feeling on whatever day it happened to be filmed.

[@NishantDash]

Great explanation, I knew about this but never bothered to study it haha. Would you do a video on McLaren's 720S's witchcraft like "Active Chassis Control system"?

[@ganessanesandjivy7021]

Great thinking for the Ford engineers and your explanation is good .

[@shortbuspimp]

very cool. thank you for breaking it down for us

[@mujjuman]

this was the coolest thing i've evr seen

[@yamama8888888]

If all they were after was different spring rates at different height why not use a progressive spring as most road vehicles do? I feel there is an added benefit to this complex geometry that we r missing

[@wanlymoya]

Man, you’re a beast, keep up!

[@awaarachora8102]

What a cool suspension! But I am assuming in the low ride height mode, when the suspension is very stiff (torsional spring stiffness), the vehicle is almost not filtering any bumps at all.

[@_BangDroid_]

Man, that push rod joint looks like it would undergo a lot of stress

[@WarpedYT]

Hey Jason, I want to collaborate with you on some upcoming episodes with DARPA.

[@EngineeringExplained]

Shoot me an email with details! Thanks

[@deepak_nigwal]

this suspension actually makes sense...

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Thanks!

[@cobra454tim]

Sounds like to me it comes down to the basic principles of levers, quite an interesting engineering combo, the only other crazy suspension I can think of after this is probably the McLaren.

[@mech-E]

The chevy colorado ZR2 has has a spool valve damper since 2014

[@laxr5rs]

Thank you! Very good!

[@LDBCFC]

Some Formula Student teams have already done this! Really impressive

[@RobManser77]

Gosh, that’s clever. Thanks for the video.

[@Andyinater]

The only complaint I have is you never mentioned the implications for suspension geometry. At the new lowered ride height the camber curves above and below neutral are vastly different than before, for example. The fact that the car remains, at worst, extremely capable in both configurations is extremely impressive.

[@future62]

Multimatic needs to offer their shocks for the aftermarket. I'd love a set of their shocks on my G37 and I'd pay good money for that tech. With 3D printing and manufacturing where it is it seems like they should be able to do this for pretty low cost. If anything possibly cheaper than conventional shocks with all their shims and valves and gas charges and the like.

[@peterjones6945]

Not just complex but over complicated. Some of these car designers should start looking at late 1970's early 1980's (and later) motorcycle suspensions. I think it was Colin Chapman (Lotus) who needed some curved aluminium oil coolers but 'no one made them' - until he was walking around paddock and saw production Japanese motorcycles with curved radiators and curved oil coolers on various machines. Suzuki SACS engines used a particularly large oil cooler on the ~140hp 1000cc motor, I forget exact size but around 20" by 14". The next year they had to go water cooled as it's roughly 10 times more effective

[@Patrick94GSR]

Wow this is awesome to see. I love suspension theory and design and seeing stuff like this. One odd thing, though, is that it looks like the coil spring is compressing as the wheel droops down, and then decompresses as the wheel moves up. Is that part of the springs being in "series"?

[@pjay3028]

Patrick94GSR I think you need to watch again and look more closely.

[@Patrick94GSR]

patrick robinson well I don't know what I was seeing, my brain was making something look backwards to me. 😂

[@tarrySubstance]

Very clever design

[@JavierCR25]

Hanging out with Jason is probably pretty cool

[@-manxman]

Clever design!

[@71Fenderv22]

Extremely interesting

[@davedbkk7564]

Nice setup Ford. Thx Jason. No KWs for this one then...

[@reighbh13]

Can you do a vid explaining the McLaren 650s and 720s suspension? Their system is also unique but can provide a Rolls Royce ride when in street mode.

[@sammy_1_1]

Video: auto switches to 144p Jason: sorry for the low resolution Perfect timing...

[@Crazyhero-zi6yt]

Hey Jason, cool video, but one question remains. Does it have a sway bar? If not, how do they compensate that? greeting from Austria!

[@brandonniu4842]

Well explained!

[@USA4thewin]

You do know that a normal coilover does the same thing... This suspension setup is a gemick

[@CharleyGeorge]

That is total genious

[@the_matchless]

Great video, your awesome 👍

[@DudeWhoSaysDeez]

That is a beautiful looking car

[@allenm00]

That rocker is called a bell crank.

[@dustinpyoung]

Where is the Amazon link to purchase this suspension kit? I need one for my 06 Civic. 🤔

[@oldred9122]

I'm curious about the rocker arm in the animation that seems to be connected to the upper control-arm pivot point?

[@mrdragancelan]

It just looks like that because of the angle. It's not actually connected. Otherwise this wouldn't work.

[@oldred9122]

That's kinda what I was assuming, but I wasn't sure. I wonder what it is connected to though. Probably just a sensor of some sort

[@darshitsheth6337]

And i am curious about the mounting of the rocker arm.......and if i want to install it then how

[@miraculouslystoned]

It's not connected at the control arm pivot. I found an image on google showing it on the actual car but appears to be missing a piece two. Looks like it could be a provision for a sway bar. Not sure if a sway bar is necessary with that eDSSV, though it may help. There's also some sort of bumper mounted to the chassis behind that extra piece on the rocker arm. Maybe a sensor that gets engaged during track mode or just keeps the suspension from completely bottoming out in case of a failure. Maybe both?

[@hrichayadav6329]

Video is very helpful ,please make a video on f1car functioning