Automotive Definition and 114 Threads

hello everybody here in that great,full&useful forum, well--im a student in the final year of mechanical engineering,and i was really interested in the whole courses we had taken at school related to the subject of comustion,and i know abit about the techniques of the electronic boeards and...

About 8 years back i remember my father telling me about a guy who had invented a set of frictionless ball bearings using magnets, he installed the ball bearings on an old buick or somthing of the sort that was a heavy boat of a vehicle. i remember my father telling me that the guy had pushed...

was wondering which formula I would use to solve this equation... a car traveling in a straight line has a velocity of +5.0m/s at some instant. After 4.0seconds, it velocity is +8.0m/s. What is it average acceleration in this time interval?

Hi veryone this is my first post... i am given with 2 datas-they r load capacity=250 kg; Dry wt of vehicle=150kg...I have a doubt...when we r calculating the power of an automotive engine, which wt. shud be taken for calculation...or should we takje the sum of them?:confused:

I don't know if this belongs in this forum or elsewhere, but i'll ask anyway... Anyone here knows a good book to read to learn on mechanical science (Applied to cars!)?

hello :) hopefully i will be able to explain my question clearly. i am trying to understand the effect that caster angles and steering axis inclination have on the camber angle of a wheel. imagine that we are looking at the left front wheel and turning it 90 degrees to the right...

Does anybody know where i could find info (books of links) on designing an anutomotive differential? Thanks

If you wish to negotiate a curve while traveling at high speed, the largest radius should be followed through the curve in order to minimize the lateral forces acting on the car. However, in practice it doesn't really work this way. I have long noted that the car can actually be more stable...

Does anyone know of any? I am thinking of putting a hard drive with an old processor and mobo in my car. Then hooking up the deck to the sound card. I have enough knowledge of computer hardware and software to do so, but i would like to find a forum where i can ask questions if i have any during...

Hi, I tried readin up on HSW and another resource about how differentials in automobiles work... and i am pretty confused. http://web.mit.edu/2.972/www/reports/differential/differential.html at that site i found good diagrams of it. I understand why the "planet and sun" gears arent...

I've got an idea for a predictive type of braking system. The general theory is great, however I am not a Mechanical Engineer at all ... just an idea incubator :-p Anyway ... my idea requires the use of deceleration of the vehicle. Are there typically sensors already on the car that...

My car has 4 power windows, and I'm trying to make a circuit that would roll down the window with just a touch of a button. I used a 555 timer monostable mode to create a logic latch for X amount of second which in turn drive a relay that give power to the window motor. Now I need a way to...

If I can somehow increase and decrease the size of my intake tube with respect to engine's rpm (high rpm= bigger intake, low rpm=small intake to increase air velocity, about how much hp would I gain. Better question is would I gain any at all[?]

I'm on my way to getting a Masters from Texas A&M University in Mechanical Engineering, and am wondering if anybody here has a ME degree and is working in the automotive field. I was also wondering if anybody here can help me with what I should expect as I get closer towards my goal in terms...