Hows that formula student car you were working on coming along?

Good to hear from you! Picked up a black 04 S4 put exhaust flash and sway bars on it, fun car real torquey, a lil heavy though. Send me pics of your car.......

Hey thanks man glad you liked it!

Yeah man, some of my best memories from uni are from the FS workshop.
The best tip i can give you is to keep your concepts simple but and thoroughly understand all the implication.
For example statically you might think you car has enough camber recovery/compensation in roll but you will find that as the car accelerates out of the corner you need more as there is additional lateral acceleration whilst the suspension is already loaded.
Also damper tuning is massively important on these cars, aim to have the car critically damped or slightly under damped, that way the force at the tyre contact point see the least variation and so you maintain a more consistent and higher grip level. Getting on a damper dyno will improve your knowledge of dampers and suspension by miles.

After i graduated i worked at the uni as a researcher for a year and a bit. Now im working freelance in design, whilst trying to break into an F1 team.

Write them an e-mail, can't remember or find the mail, didn't order of them so don't know

That sounds good, i was thinking to order tubes from Nova Cycles last year, you can try them also, maybe you can get even better deal.

no man, i'm in a financial low right now + the taxes are killers right here, but that sounds really good, thanx for letting me know
Are you ordering some?

Thats a good method. I had been sticking with the specific planes to allow easy tube thickness changes, for calculating mass properties. Happy to see another SW user onboard!