The V-Twin Project

So we had a Block and a lot of bits. The first thing that we had to get our head around was what the previous guy had been thinking for how every thing would go together.

There were some things that were obvious problems needing solutions and a few things that I didn't agree with that he had done in design. That happens, no one is every completely right. The main problems were getting the crank balanced, figuring out the oil flows and figuring out how to do the cam chains. Some of ...

I picked up this project part way. i can't claim to have had all of the great ideas.

The idea of a custom V-Twin engine for the formula sae car had been around for a few years in the Auckland team and an old Yamaha Vision engine was dyno’ed and played with to try and get some rough data.

A team member was dead set on the idea of a V twin, was given a bit of cash and he started developing ideas for how a v twin could work. Over a year he came up with the idea that I ...

Formula SAE was developed in the United States of America in 1981 by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) to be used as an educational tool to develop university engineering students' knowledge and skills. In 2000 the first Formula SAE competition was held in Australia. Since then the Australian event has grown to be contested by over 25 universities from Australia, America, Japan and Europe. Formula SAE events are also run in the UK and Japan.

The year long competition comprises ...

Gidday
My name is Craig and I’m a fourth year mechanical engineering student at the University of Auckland. Also while I have been at university I have been part of the University of Auckland Formula SAE team ( www.FSAE.co.nz ). As part of my degree I have to do a project about something engineering based. For this project I have decided to put two single cylinder dirt bike engines onto a common crank to make a V-twin.
There are two reasons why I’m doing this project;

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