18-10-2013, 10:45 PM
Well I've decided this year of uni I'm going to get awesome at CFD, as we have some pretty swanky software (Ricardo Wave for CFD, Altair Hyperworks for FEA, CATIA, Solidworks and Creo for design stuff) on all the Mechanical Engineering PCs and I only have 2 years left to use them.
I'm currently learning with the aim of designing a new exhaust for our formula student car, which runs a restricted (it's still plenty fast enough in a car that weighs about 300kg) Yamaha R6 engine, but I'm pondering what useful stuff I could look at for the HDi.
I'm guessing the exhaust manifold is a sack of shit as standard, as most are, and how much potential benefit could come from a redesign? I can get materials cheap, and free labour, so now's the time for me to do these things!
Maybe I should be enterprising and offer some engineering consultancy work for you guys
I'm currently learning with the aim of designing a new exhaust for our formula student car, which runs a restricted (it's still plenty fast enough in a car that weighs about 300kg) Yamaha R6 engine, but I'm pondering what useful stuff I could look at for the HDi.
I'm guessing the exhaust manifold is a sack of shit as standard, as most are, and how much potential benefit could come from a redesign? I can get materials cheap, and free labour, so now's the time for me to do these things!
Maybe I should be enterprising and offer some engineering consultancy work for you guys
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