Although ultimately not pursued for B23, my FSAE Suspension team has been doing a lot of research and designing for the potential of decoupled suspension. Decoupled suspension would allow the shocks to be tuned more finely for different motions as we currently are being held back by the stiffness needed in heave. Seeing as our delicate aerodynamic components are so low to the ground, we cannot have any hard bumps of both wheels and therefore the shocks are set to be quite stiff. If we were able to separate the modes then the heave could be left as stiff and the roll could be made much softer.

This project aims to mitigate that issue by creating one of many potential mockups into how decoupled rockers would look so as to preserve both the heave and roll separation without adding too much complexity or weight. 

What makes this design unique is that it stacks the two shocks on top of each other, something which preserves space and allows the rockers to be more easily packaged in a similar manner to how they are currently set up on the car. The bottom shock shown also has a slider mechanism that is designed to allow the spring to be activated in both directions of motion.