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Nahguavkire
Brommers
If you want a reasonable starter on suspension geometry then I'd recommend 'Competition Car Suspension' by Allan Staniforth. If you want the bible on suspension, then that would have to be Race Car Vehicle Dynamics by Milliken & Milliken, but it's pretty heavy going. I did A-level Maths, but I still find the mathematics in Milliken & Milliken pretty hard going. It's still the default go-to book on suspension, despite having been written 25 years ago.
The chassis is, relatively speaking, the easy part. It's basically just a big bracket holding all the working bits of the car together. If you use 1" square 16g ERW and plenty of triangulation then you won't go far wrong, preferably with semi-stressed aluminium panels attached with polyurethane adhesive and pop-rivets. Or carbon panels if you really want to go bling.