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Try Vibration Engineering by W. Ker Wilson Truck

Being a northerner, I think there is one consideration you miss: if you would like to have warm toes, you'll be a lot happier with the smaller engine. Truck

If your concern is with the affect on tankage, you need not worry; standard design parameters are full at 90% of physical volume which allows for all manner of things (including thermal expansion due to increased temperature of the return fuel which typically cools the injectors). Truck

As I recall, the Formula Ford SCCA cars ran rear mount Hewland boxes and used a mechanical linkage - you may want to go online to find FF teams Truck

1. Watch your compression ratio - too low and you won't detonate at all. I think that you're skirting the limit. 2. Why cut the supercharger out at all? Truck

quick calculation says that your shaft is approx 500 lbs and qualifies as a slender beam. Several things to look at: 1. static bearing load 2. shaft imbalance 3. shaft whip (frequently significant in a slender shaft) 4. loads and frequency response of the castings at either...

the magic of bleach............. Truck

Kind of depends - in my estimation all bets are off when you use wrinkle walls - the moment arm goes down - there is a torsional spring effect, etc Some of this has to do with why the winners are generally old enough to have tons of empirical data............. Truck

The moment arm decreases Truck

Remember - if you have enough torque to make this question worthwhile, the tire will squat quite a bit under load so you will effectively have a variable overall ratio. Truck

The easiest way I know of for an outsider (i.e., one who doesn't have access to the DC CAD library) is simply to purchase on of the dust shield/gaskets between the engine and transaxle. It comes with the holes installed and can, therefore, be measured or scanned to generate the hole pattern. Truck

Tandem axles are tough on tires and make significant changes in steering/tracking. If you don't use a lift axle, then most tandem axle suspensions will have some kind of equlizer mechanismw hich is used for load balance purposes but have a tendency to get all gummed up causing odd weight...

As I'm sure you already know, the more zeroes in the number the more expensive it is (exponentially so)! The real question to ask is: Why do I think I need that tight tolerance? One which dimensions? Truck

There are still air starting systems around (one of the larger fleets still uses them), but they are not nearly as common as they used to be. Truck

I am assuming that the load is applied through a sleeve or some other close fitting 'tunnel'; What clearance is there between the bearings and the distributed load? If you have an evenly distributed load and no clearance, there will be just shear at the bearing surface interface. Truck