10/30 Update

This Week:

• Throttle Body Elbow DOE
• Coil Bracket and misc. small parts design
• Finalizing dimensions

Next Week:

• Final drawings for most to all parts
• New Gantt chart for November
• Scheduling for manufacture

Throttle Body Intake DOE

Problem Statement

• A DOE (Design of Experiment) was done on the throttle body intake.  
• Three different designs were used as initial runs (Low Intake Elbow, High Flow Intake Elbow, Box Intake Elbow)
• Two variables were altered for this experiment; throttle body flange angle and spline gap.

• The max velocity at the outtake was used as the main result in deciding which design proved to be best.

Results

The top three designs were selected...

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3848_splinegap_2

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Conclusion

• Throttle body flange angle and spline gap were the two main variables that could alter the max velocity at the exit.  
• Of the two, changing the spline gap yielded the highest max velocity.  
• Further design will be done when final measurements are taken at throttle body.

Throttle Body Flow Analysis

Throttle Body Elbow

10/23 Update

This Week:

• Throttle body elbow modeled
• Flow analysis for throttle body elbow
• Started drawing for reluctor wheel mount/crank sensor mount

Next week:

• More flow analysis for throttle body elbow
• Pick final design for throttle body elbow
• Model ignition coil brackets
• Drawings for modeled parts

Weekend Junkyard Run

This weekend the group went out for a junkyard run.  We ended up going to three different junkyards looking for cooling fans and an adequate fuse box.  

Crank Sensor Mount