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Old 09-09-2009, 08:00 PM
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Screen captures of the FEA (Finite Element Analysis) on the suspension. The areas of red show the highest stress concentrations. The rod ends are red because we modeled them in aluminum to simplify number crunching. In reality, they were made from heat treated 4340 chromoly.

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