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Automotive Twin engine vs inline flywheel supercharger idea?
Need to change post to utilizing flywheel as a blower/supercharger- Roberto palacio
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Automotive Twin engine vs inline flywheel supercharger idea?
Had this idea today in my garage when I was setting up timing marks on the crankshafts and flexplate,the front engines flexplate would not be spinning the transmission.The flexplate is 14 inch diameter could you weld a series of fan blades to the flywheel face, get a modified bellhousing create...- Roberto palacio
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- Engine Flywheel Idea
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Automotive Standing mile race car twin engine heavy front end?
got a twin ls1 standing mile car project I've been toying with for a while.My question is the engines have beeen fit in the engine bay with the rear motor having minimal setback to allow room for the front engine,the total weight for both engines is 760 lbs,half of that weight is ahead of the...- Roberto palacio
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- Car Engine Race
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Automotive Coupling electric motor to gas engine in series
That's how I was looking at it launch off idle with both motors running somewhere in the 2-3k rpm range the electric motor would cut out and decouple from the engine.If the batteries were charged I could possibly drive around on the electric motor only just letting the gas engine windmill along...- Roberto palacio
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Automotive Coupling electric motor to gas engine in series
As for the current gas engines the engines are bolted together with no gearbox in between the engines are GM ls v8s max rpm 6500.A big DC brushed motors I seen have a same max rpm of 4000 rpm.- Roberto palacio
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Automotive Coupling electric motor to gas engine in series
Would it be possible to couple and electric motor to gas engine in series so both would increase the overall power.I currently building a twin engine car with two gas engines coupled together crank to crank like the old school twin dragsters.I would like to connect a large D.C. Motor in front of...- Roberto palacio
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- Coupling Electric Electric motor Engine Gas Motor Series
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering