I have designed a conecting rod for sport aplication, the first design was a H shape rod, but due to the hight engine speed and load supported, the material stress of this design was very close to the limit, for this reason I tryed to design a second one but with I shape.
The result was that for...
I think the only way to do this is a custom made system and adapt it to your system.
You can buy two transducers one for the force and another for the desplacement (desplacement potentiometer), and introduce both signals on your data adquisition system.
Seems to be easy, but you need to expend...
I think that many of the participants on this thread are confused whith the concep of "towing". Really is the same if the engine is used for towing or if is instaled into a test bench performing a Power curve. If the engine runs stationary at a given speed -WOT-, this means that there...
I have read that in the RICARDO oficial magazine, which is sent every two or three monts to my company.
The article said -I remember- that RICARDO Engineering is planing to have a Diesel sport engine in the next 24 hour of le Mans, the engine has been developed by RICARDO, and now they are...
Usually the transition between closed loop and open loop is made by the trottle angle or position of the acceleration pedal, around 80-85% trottle, so if you can acces to the ECU parameters, you can modify this parameter and fix it at for example 25% in order to have a good Idle.
Don't forget...