gwh0803
10-24-2012, 08:44 PM
Hi fellow RS members,
We are a team of students from UBC Integrated Engineering and for our yearly design project, we have collaborated with my buddy and we plan to build a fully functional aero kit for his car. Because we're not too familiar with the car modification and motorsports scene, we have come here to humbly ask for insights and guidance.
The design course is also co-joined with a business course, meaning that parts of the design requirements involve having the end deliverable to be "marketable" and "be able to defend its market shares", as per requested by our professors. To acquire a better understanding of the needs of the end users, we have already attended car meets and autocross/track events. However, such survey could not cover the entire scope, hence we believe an online survey is necessary in order to tailor our design objective to the needs of the end users.
A brief background:
Our project caters towards the needs of motorsports enthusiasts who track their daily driven vehicle. Because of the difference in demands for aerodynamic performance in various motorsports events, we have narrowed down our target audience to participants in specific high-speed driving events such as track and drag racing.
Our project will consist of five parts, where each will be built to work as part of a whole system:
- Front splitter
- Rear diffuser
- Side skirts
- Under tray
- Spoiler
After some preliminary research and survey, we have come up with the following primary goals as part of our design:
- Purely function-based, meaning the entire system is for track use only, for the dimensions may be deemed to be non-street suitable, even if legal.
- Removable and re-attachable in short amount of time, where the system can be stowed away to maintain daily driving comfort/regulations.
Being in an advanced engineering course, we have various resources at our disposal, ranging from wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics to CNC machining and access to composite materials. Because of our limited budget, the car we will be working with is a lightly modified ’92 Civic Si (EG6).
We are now in the intermediate stages of design where changes happen on an hourly basis. Enclosed is a short questionnaire, where we hope to gather as many feedback as we possibly can. If possible, please add in your personal experience and insights as well, for we would love to hear individuals’ stories both in the drivers and the enthusiasts’ perspective.
Of course, I’m more than happy to answer any further questions related to the project.
Thank you for your inputs!
Edit:
As per requested by forum users, the online survey is now active.
IGEN 330 - Design Stage Questionnaire Survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MXR28Q7)
Please feel free to add in any further remarks/experiences that you would like to share.
We are a team of students from UBC Integrated Engineering and for our yearly design project, we have collaborated with my buddy and we plan to build a fully functional aero kit for his car. Because we're not too familiar with the car modification and motorsports scene, we have come here to humbly ask for insights and guidance.
The design course is also co-joined with a business course, meaning that parts of the design requirements involve having the end deliverable to be "marketable" and "be able to defend its market shares", as per requested by our professors. To acquire a better understanding of the needs of the end users, we have already attended car meets and autocross/track events. However, such survey could not cover the entire scope, hence we believe an online survey is necessary in order to tailor our design objective to the needs of the end users.
A brief background:
Our project caters towards the needs of motorsports enthusiasts who track their daily driven vehicle. Because of the difference in demands for aerodynamic performance in various motorsports events, we have narrowed down our target audience to participants in specific high-speed driving events such as track and drag racing.
Our project will consist of five parts, where each will be built to work as part of a whole system:
- Front splitter
- Rear diffuser
- Side skirts
- Under tray
- Spoiler
After some preliminary research and survey, we have come up with the following primary goals as part of our design:
- Purely function-based, meaning the entire system is for track use only, for the dimensions may be deemed to be non-street suitable, even if legal.
- Removable and re-attachable in short amount of time, where the system can be stowed away to maintain daily driving comfort/regulations.
Being in an advanced engineering course, we have various resources at our disposal, ranging from wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics to CNC machining and access to composite materials. Because of our limited budget, the car we will be working with is a lightly modified ’92 Civic Si (EG6).
We are now in the intermediate stages of design where changes happen on an hourly basis. Enclosed is a short questionnaire, where we hope to gather as many feedback as we possibly can. If possible, please add in your personal experience and insights as well, for we would love to hear individuals’ stories both in the drivers and the enthusiasts’ perspective.
Of course, I’m more than happy to answer any further questions related to the project.
Thank you for your inputs!
Edit:
As per requested by forum users, the online survey is now active.
IGEN 330 - Design Stage Questionnaire Survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MXR28Q7)
Please feel free to add in any further remarks/experiences that you would like to share.