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Suspension and chassis play a vital role in the structural performance of a Formula SAE vehicle. This paper focuses on CAE modeling and simulation study of the FSAE vehicle structure to analyze and improve its characteristics; and also the fabrication of the structure. This has been done for the current vehicle prepared according to 2014 Formula SAE rules; as part of Thapar University (TU) Formula student team - Team Fateh. The study started with Multi Body Dynamic (MBD) model building of front and rear suspension system using ADAMS/Car and Finite Element (FE) model building of space frame type chassis using HyperMesh for the current (2014) and previous (2011 and 2012) TU FSAE vehicles. The MBD model was used for carrying out kinematic analysis (suspension wheel travel) to calculate and analyze the roll centers using Design of Experiments (DOE) study.