Stage 2: Lowering Springs & Fast Road Geometry. The suspension design employed by the Aston Martin V8 Vantage is quite complex and very carefully thoughout in order to help it produce the almost compromise free ride quality and chassis control that we have come to expect from modern high-end sport cars. The system is designed to vary it’s chassis geometry dynamically as you are driving the car so that the chassis seamlessly shifts it’s predominant traits such as “attentiveness” around the centre line across to “stability” during braking and acceleration moments. This kinematic suspension operation is achieved using carefully designed multi-link suspension arm designs both at the front and the rear of the car, this is then combined with pre-loaded and deliberately deformable suspension bushings. What has become clear to us is that whilst these systems work extremely well in the beautifully controlled environment of the manufacturers testing grounds they sometimes fail to deliver the intended results when out in the real world and this is often caused by poor calibration of the static wheel geometry, this is to say that if the starting positions for this complex suspension system are not completely accurate and correct to begin with then the dynamic aspect of the operation does not work at all as well as it should. Here at Torque Developments we have spent a great deal of time studying the operation of the Aston Martin suspension system and testing various set-up trends, now we have arrived at what we believe are the perfect starting positions for the chassis geometry when used for a road car application and armed with our top of the line optical chassis alignment system from Snap-on we are perfectly equipped to apply these settings to your car down to an accuracy of 1/100th of a mm, we work to far finer tolerances than are suggested by the Aston Martin factory but these tight tolerances we have found to be absolutely necessary in order to achieve optimal results from these cars.

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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 24 October, 2011.