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[QUOTE="Cman250, post: 1195777, member: 76520"] Well here it goes for the first time! For those of you that don't know this is a thread that i will be posting every Friday called "the drawing board". It is a thread in which il post my idea of the week and viewers can comment and post their own ideas. If all goes accordingly it we should have a creative thread filled with each others ideas and it will be fun to see what others come up with in their crazy ideas. As far as rules on posting and along those lines click here. [URL=http://www.dirtrider.net/forums3/showthread.php?t=151760]OTHER THREAD[/URL] OK so my first idea is a tad off the direct subject of dirt bikes but im curious as to what you think of it. "THE AIR HOG ENGINE" Everyday people from across the world study new ideas on how to create a cleaner, more efficient, way of transportation. Now the main idea behind this is the engine inside the vehicle. Well a little while back when i was just a lad i used to have a toy car that was powered by air. Also known as the air hog car. Well a few years later and this little thing gives me an idea, If you can make a car move by an engine propelled by simply just compressed air why can't we make a real life scaled vehicle powered by a similar engine design. If it were at all possible to scale and improve upon this design a few main changes would need to be considered. First the toy car I had would be fully compressed in a little plastic tank attached to the car. Of course a plastic tank would not hold nearly enough air to power a full sized vehicle so it would have to be a solid high compression tank, similar to those helium tanks you see at stores to fill up your balloons. Another thing to consider is the throttle control. The way the car worked is when it was fully pressurized it give it a push and instantly all the power from the compressed air would be forced into the little piston. This gave it quite a blast off but all the stored energy was used in a matter of 10-15 seconds until you pumped it up again. In this case you would have to make a lever in which you could control the amount of air forced into the piston, kind of like the flap on a carburetor that allows the air into the engine. This would allow for a longer use of power. Now no matter how much control over the engine you have that air is going to run out pretty fast even with a high compression tank. So you would have to come up with a device that could be used to reuse its energy while its running. So we need to harness a way to compress air while your driving, here is one way : A whole new break design would need to be designed. Instead of having a normal disk brake that stops the vehicle through applied pressure to a rotor connected to the wheels , you would have a device that when you pull the brake lever it would use the momentum of the vehicle to compress air back into the tank for reuse. The more you pull the lever the more it use the momentum to compress larger amounts of air back into the tank so it will feel similar to a normal break only you are killing two birds with one stone- stopping or slowing the car affectively and creating energy that will be used to power the vehicle. Well of course if your not braking often you would need to refill the tanks at a station which would have compressors. Thats all I can think of for the moment on this idea. Enjoy and criticize as you please. [/QUOTE]
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