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To anyone interested in this movie/story, I wholeheartedly recommend "Go Like Hell" By A.J. Baime. Great book that goes over the story in detail, along with the magnitude of the development the Ford GT40.
Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
An fantastic breakdown of the history between Ford and Ferrari at LeMans, and the inception of the Ford GT. Written well, and the story itself is super interesting! A must read in my opinion.
Follow that rabbit hole and read.. https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Traffic-American-Inside-Technology/dp/0262141000
It goes into detail about how the motor industry in the US made cars the norm by removing sidewalks, creating jaywalking laws, protecting the drivers rights and educating children to comply to the necessity of the car.
There's a great biography written about this by author A.J Baime, titled "Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans.
It gives very detailed accounts from both sides of this epic rivalry, and how badly Henry Ford II and Carroll Shelby wanted to beat Enzo Ferrari. Worth the read.
Link: Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans https://www.amazon.com/dp/0547336055/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_zXj9CbJQXZM27
More like everyone has now copied this book...
> Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
https://www.amazon.com/Go-Like-Hell-Ferrari-Battle/dp/0547336055
Gordon P. Blair is your messiah in this case
https://www.amazon.com/Design-Simulation-Stroke-Engines-R-186/dp/0768004403
There's a whole book about that from the 2000-era SUV craze. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001GXQOM8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
There’s a great book on this called <em>Policing the Open Road</em> by Sarah Seo that goes into how cars are the number one tool of oppression for American cops.
Sehe ich auch so - wenn man am rechten Rand fährt, verleitet man nur verantwortungslose Autofahrer dazu, einem viel zu eng auch dann zu Überholen, wenn gerade Gegenverkehr kommt, anstatt zu warten bis genügend Platz ist.
Da hält man sich lieber an das, was einem beim Motorradführerschein beigebracht wird: Fahrspurbehauptend fahren. Übrigens: Straßen wurden für Fahrräder gebaut, nicht für Autos - die dürfen sie nur mitbenutzen, wir sind ja nicht so: Roads were not built for cars: How cycliss were the first to push for good roads
Definitely not video-based, but I would highly recommend the books Beast and The Unfair Advantage.
The 10x number is emperically derived by tbe team I was with over several years. That value is a solid starting point for the FSAE restrictor and thumper engine applications.
Remember that engines are just glorious heat pump systems. They resonate, they have harmonics, there are tuning frequencies and efficiencies of the system you are polishing.
Corky Bell's Maximum Boost is a good reference for high performance applications.
And then, the Holy bible of engine knowledge that your team should have on hand: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Simulation-Stroke-Engines-R-186/dp/0768004403
Indy Split by John Oreovicz is really good if you’re interested in the subject.
A great book about the CART era is CART, The First 30 Years...( I actually have 2 copies of it, if you can't find one)
"Autocourse Official History: Cart: The First 20 Years, 1979-1998 (Hazleton History) by Rick Shaffer - Hardcover - July 1999 - from The Book Garden (SKU: 948824)" https://www.biblio.com/book/autocourse-official-history-cart-first-20/d/1449700388?aid=frg&gclid=Cj0KCQjwzLCVBhD3ARIsAPKYTcSQFhHS-OK2Z6xN7jAGk4WDju6Mr4wcrmrUIAzNJt-VLkGxFGfUwOgaAkUAEALw_wcB
John Oreovicz wrote an excellent book about the CART/IRL split
"Indy Split: The Big Money Battle That Nearly Destroyed Indy Racing : Oreovicz, John: Books" https://www.amazon.ca/Indy-Split-Battle-Nearly-Destroyed/dp/1642340561/ref=asc_df_1642340561/?tag=googlemobshop-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459418184330&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10562319213091057900&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&...
If you want a good and fascinating examination of how various forces in the early teens and twenties managed to push the streets in urban areas from public space, to areas where pedestrians could "jaywalk", I can't recommend this book enough
https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Traffic-American-Inside-Technology/dp/0262516128
> The fact is that roads were built for cars, and paid for and maintained with the money paid by car, van and truck drivers through their fuel taxes and duties, road/car tax, VRT, etc.
Ha ha ha - bullshit. Paid for by general taxation, and the Germans/ECC (when we were poor pre 1995).
Back when we were part of the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Were-Not-Built-Cars/dp/1610916891
the whole reason why cops are around is to police roadways
a wonderful book to read is (Policing the Open Road)[https://www.amazon.com/Policing-Open-Road-Transformed-American/dp/0674980867]
The enormous--and enormously profitable--light truck market was dominated by GM and Ford in the early 90s. Dodge was small fry and there were no other brands with trucks in that category specific to North America. Until Dodge introduced their next generation styled explicitly to resemble an 18 wheeler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8vJrzLrwz0
Also, interesting "psychological profile" of typical buyers of these vehicles:
https://www.amazon.com/High-Mighty-Dangerous-Rise-SUV-ebook/dp/B001GXQOM8
(Hint: it's not edifying reading, lots of insecurity and "reptilian brain" thinking).
This isn't something people like to hear, but Jeeps and some other vehicles with high center of gravity aren't that good safety-wise. Rollover injuries (esp. bad for debilitating neck injuries), roof caving in (because of the extra weight/ballast needed to keep them for rolling over in the first place, etc.) are well-known problems with these vehicles (Consumer Reports has done good investigative work, esp. on how structurally weak roofs of these vehicles are and how companies have fought tooth and nail against stronger regulations), but you're dealing with the World's most powerful advertising industry by a long shot, so you're likely going to be surrounded in a vapor bath of BS from the "usual suspects". Here's a journalist who wrote a book on the topic, but as with so much else in this industry his warnings went unheeded:
https://www.amazon.com/High-Mighty-Dangerous-Rise-SUV-ebook/dp/B001GXQOM8
“Beast”, about the Ilmor engine that was run in the Indy 500, is excellent. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beast-Secret-Ilmor-Penske-Engine-Shocked/dp/1642340103/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=beast+penske&qid=1633586988&qsid=260-3486682-4676060&s=books&sr=1-1&sres=1642340103%2CB00NYJHVTC
> That being said, I would be interested to hear more about the campaigns you're talking about from the 1920s.
A good place to start is looking into how the "crime" of jaywalking was invented. A number of news articles about it have popped up during the past few years. Here's one from the BBC.
For a recent in-depth academic exploration of the topic, check out Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.
The history of cars is great fun and this is one of the best chapters. Of course the wikipedia pages are good but this book is a pretty complete retelling as well.
CFD is a drop in the bucket when it comes to Intake and Plenum Design.
Look at the top 5 teams design try to understand why they run that. By looking at current designs you can learn why they do something, the way they do then improve on it for your design.
Search the FSAE Forums, lots of info there. Maybe not always directly but its helpful.
Google FSAE Intake Paper, use other key terms there are a few papers that you can find that talk about plenum design. Also before buying or complicating your self google the SAE Papers name you can find many of them for free.
Tip: Just because something flows better does not mean it will perform better. You might get higher power but throttle response suffers.
Reccomended book http://www.amazon.com/Design-Simulation-Stroke-Engines-R-186/dp/0768004403
BTW, if anyone here has not read Go Like Hell, I highly suggest it. Absolutely awesome story of the Ford/Ferrari battle.
http://www.amazon.com/Go-Like-Hell-Ferrari-Battle/dp/0547336055/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
You need a place to cross the road, or you are a JayWalker. If you read the book Fighting Traffic you will learn that the car companies invented crosswalks so they could sell more cars. Fucking Jaywalkers. They deserve to be run over for slowing me down ;)
There are several still on the road: NPR Story and recent book