Race Car Flywheel Moment of Inertia

For race cars, lower flywheel inertia is better for the following reasons.
1. Quick Acceleration - because most of the power is available for the vehicle (we dont have to spin a beefier flywheel)
2. quick decelration - due to lower rotational inertia of the flywheel during braking or turning.
3. Lower rotational parts means lower static parts too..thus a lighter powertrain and hence better gas mileage
4. Lesser horsepower requirement - Due to lower inertia rotation parts, needs lesser horsepower to accelerate.

Yoko

yatch design links

Here are some very good links listed on yatch and boat designs across the world.

http://www.svensons.com/boat/
http://robroy.dyndns.info/boats/sunapee/
http://www.bruceroberts.com/
http://boatdesign.net/plans/index.htm
http://www.westlawn.edu/index.html
http://www.bateau.com/index.php
http://www.farrdesign.com/316.htm
http://ants.dif.um.es/~humberto/yacht.html
http://www.tedbrewer.com/yachtdesign.html
http://www.tomfexas.com/

Ciao
Yoko

Brake problems syptoms

- The car pulling to one side during braking.
- Squeaks, grinding or other noises when the brakes are applied.
- The pedal goes farther toward the floor than normal.
- The pedal pulsates during regular (non-panic) braking.
- Evidence of brake fluid inside the tire/wheel or on the ground.

Powertrain Courses - Links

Univ of Michigan:
http://arc.engin.umich.edu/arc/contact/index.html
http://me.engin.umich.edu/autolab/index.html

Ohio State Univ:
http://car.eng.ohio-state.edu/education/disted.shtml

Univ of Wisconsin:
http://mees.engr.wisc.edu/index.lasso

Wet exhaust manifolds

Marine engine applications use sea water or fresh water to cool the exhasut system. Water is thrwon into the collector pipe which is then spit out off the exhaust pipe. these pipes are sometimes made of fibre reinforced plastics ( FRP) and can withstand very high temperature gradients.
This is different from usual road applications that we see.