When a supplier is saying their valves are chrome plated, would the chrome be thick enough to be classified as Hard chrome? What chrome specs are used in that industry? What exactly is 'flash chrome' and is that enough for sufficient wear abatement?
After a few hours of running on a new...
I'm trying to understand the effects of thermal cycling on metal parts.
When a metal is heated it expands (I'll call it elongates) and contracts when cools. Simple stuff. However, what conditions must exist for a permenant set in elongation to occur? I assume that as the temp is less than...
"It could be a carbide coating of some type, that's what we used on our aluminum brake rotors for FSAE and it worked well for the application"
Interesting. How was the coating applied? We do HVOF at our facility.
Thanks for the input guys. The flywheel will weigh 15 lbs with the ring gear and mate to a twin disk clutch (the assembly can actually accomodate a triple, just with thinner floaters and friction disks). The car will be street driven, but, I live close to the Bonneville Salt Flats and I plan...
I'm designing a chromoly flywheel and I was going to have a shrink fit for the ring gear. The diametral interference fit is .013." I've run the numbers and this fit is acceptable, actually it leaves half the original fit at max speed which is 8000rpm. I've never seen steel flywheels with...
The gearbox in question is for a 3000GT/Stealth TT. Torque, of course, will be increased. I suspect, however, the increase in shock loading will place higher loads throughout the entire load path.
Nevertheless, the question remains: Any text available?
Yes, there are dog teeth on the synchro pack. However, I'm talking about getting rid of the conical synchronizers and using castelated teeth standing perpendicular to the face of the gear for engagement.
Kinkd of Like this:
http://www.swiftune.com/Product/411/swift-shift-dog-engagement-kit.aspx
"Oiling and FEA on the case would probably be the toughest design"
Exactly, that is why I'm hoping for some good material to read. I'm actually looking at retrofitting a transmission with dog faced gears for road racing.
Anyone know of a good source on automotive gearbox design? I know I can use classical strengths, gear and bearing design equations to design everything around. However, I would like to glean any usefull info I can to make the design flow much easier. So, any ideas?
Mike
"A comment like octane on demand does slightly less than zilch for their credibility."
So running 91 oct from one fuel cell on one set of injectors, and 116 from another fuel cell to the other set indicates, what, zilch on their credibility?
They may not be degree certified engineers, but...
This is more of a conceptual question for me as I'm not looking for a 300M axle. It just seems that there are a lot of companies claiming that they have a 300M axle and it is unbreakable and guys on other forums I frequent are getting duped into that notion.
Thank you for your input guys
