Introduction and Bodywork Part 1: Wooden Frame
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- This is an introduction to How to Build a Racing Car, which covers a project I did between the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2016 - building a Formula Vee racing car. I also cover the beginning of the bodywork plug build which will eventually be used to create the fiberglass bodywork for the car.
How to Build a Racing Car follows the design and construction of the FVT05, a car built for the Australian Formula Vee racing series.
Support this project on Patreon:
/ thomsenmotorsport
Partners:
Intercad (intercad.com.au/) who provided Solidworks for this project.
JKF Aero (jkfaero.com/) who assisted on the design of the bodywork and undertray.
Also follow the project at:
/ thomsenmotorsport
/ thomsenracecar
Music:
Licenced from Epidemic Sound (www.epidemicsou...)
4:36 to 5:01 should be played in reverse ;-)
Great work by the way, I just got this recommended and can't wait to watch the whole playlist :-D
This is so amazing, these videos are so well put together and you’re living every car guy engineer’s dream, so jealous!
I want to design a car but I have no money lol
@@EliteCubingAlliance You can probably design one, you just can't build one.
@@Bullshit_Media Lol true. I want to get money but I'm 14 and can't get a job yet :/
This is amazing work.
I have a project at university, we are building the same car but with a rotating suspension, which means the car can lean to the right and to the left on corners.
Do you have any idea what modifications should be made ?
Thank you
Love the quality of these videos and Kyle is really a smart guy love his videos.
Thanks, good to hear. Kyle was a great help on this project, he knows his stuff.
First, you are amazing, every video its a wonderful piece of knownledge, second, ¿Where did you learn to do such things in solidworks? I use it to Chemical Engineering designs but never something such complicated like this.
Thanks, appreciate the feedback. I'm mostly self taught in Solidworks, I've used it since my university days. Even with something as complicated as this car, each individual component can be boiled down to a number of simple operations. I'd recommend just playing around, starting with something simple and building up from there. I went through five iterations of this car before having the final design done, much of the reason I went through so many was just because I was was learning to draw the various bits and pieces.
Carrol Smith provided much in refinement conceptually.
I am not building a car. I don’t plan on racing any cars any time soon. Yet I still will be watching every single one of your car building videos. Amazing work on the car and the videos.
This is such a great project it’s also the first thing I want to do once I get my own garage 🎉 (I’m also a fellow mechanical engineer 🤓)
I'm also a mechanical engineer with the same plan once I have a garage. I haven't even bought land but I have already designed my workshop in sketch up (too cheap to pay for revit) with a formula car in mind 😂
Where can i get the diaminsions for the engine and the gearbox i couldnt find anything helpfull on the internet so i was wondering if you can you help me in anyway?!?!
And thx
I can't remember exactly where I found them, highly detailed models were available on some CAD parts website - it was called something like CADSpace or something.
Hey buddy.. I'm sure you wont see this comment cause now it's 2021.. but I do appreciate your post. I'm making a Carbon fiber structural motion sim frame to replace my steel frame. Love the video. I am just about to start. Have all the 'stuff' on the workbenches waiting for me to build something out of 'nothing'.. DMAX motion sim
Your dads a legend
sir, you are brilliant! that's what i dream of :)
This is extremely cool, I have watched a few videos! But I wonder, what was the total cost? And how would it be to drive it on a normal road?
Something like 30k AUD from memory. To drive it down a normal road would be rough, you wouldn't want to do it for too long but not much prevents it from working on a normal road. It'd bottom out pretty badly but go fast enough and you generally scrape over the top of things.
Hey, im very impressed. What Programm did you use for the digital models.
What Software did you use for rendering?
Did you do all the designing yourself?
By the way, great project!
Thanks. The design was mostly my own, done primarily in Solidworks. I had some assistance around the bodywork and aero from JKF aero.
@3:08 Been watching Kyle's engineering channel for a while now, I guess the automotive race engineering world isn't that big!
Watched the suspension videos first but I've decided to start from the beginning, really enjoying these videos!
i wanted to design a chassis and use ansys for stimulatuion for my project .where can i get information about chassis design
You could have used plaster of paris instead of bog. It is very easy to work,and can be finished to a very fine finish,and does not attack foam.
Inspiring design project, Solid works user here to, although I have a lot to learn. Its was nice to learn you are also from Australia as am I.
big bro i love your videos , please make more about commercial vehicles suspension !
In which university did you study?
Great work, really enjoyed it. Also very inspiring.
Thanks!
i am hugely impressed!!!!! looking forwards to see the entire project ;-)
You are my hero. No joke!
Hi. i am educating mechanic engineer, in 2019, i will graduated, and i want to make that car really. i loved it so much. But i could not find your car's measures. How can i get this?
I'm hoping to get the design files together at some stage. I'm short on time at the moment so it's been a slow process.
Thank you so much for putting your experience into these vídeos. I'm a mechanical engineering student from Brazil and I'm just wondered about the content.
Glad to hear you enjoyed them.
I made it with woodprix instructions !
So you left stinger to make you own racing car? What were your reasons for doing this?
Yes. Many reasons - I thought I could build a better car, that it would be cheaper in the long term than leasing, that I'd have more control over the condition and quality of the vehicle. Had I continued to race I think this would have been the right choice, not so much considering I left after one year.
Great videos and project. What software are you doing the aero simulations in please?
Thanks! I didn't do the aero simulations myself, JKF Aero did them all and gave me feedback on how to modify the bodywork to optimize it. They also did all of the design on the undertray. You can find their website here: jkfaero.com/. If you're game then you can do the simulation yourself, Solidworks I know has CFD capability if you get the right version.
Why not just use isolation foam for forming the fiberglass?
Do you mean like I did for the detailed curves in the next part of the video? I probably could have done the whole car plug in foam but I think this was cheaper and I was able to be more accurate this way.
I love the way you make these videos
how did you convert the 3d curve shape to 2d?
Are you referring to the bulkhead boards? These I manually sized according to the model of the body. The flat sheets which were bent I converted to sheet metal in Solidworks, which produced the 3D unbent pattern. It's all a very manual process however, the software is an aid rather than a complete solution.
yup,thank you so much for the info!
what is the program
Great video
What engine is used?
VW type 1 1600cc.
That's a quality video Simon. Well done mate.
Thanks, good to hear. The chassis will be the next one, look out for it in two weeks.
very nice.
all is exelent exept the engine
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