Although people build cars for the joy and accomplishment, most people also take into consideration what the car will be worth when completed. As i said before, an XR GT would have no monetary value whatsoever. Unless of course an LFS fan happens to come across it.
It would be a pointless project because it wouldn't be worth anything when you finished. It would probably be worth less because noone would have a clue what it is.
This was a little uncalled for? Seeing as how my father owns a Landscape Designing business, i take offense to your remark. I asked a simple question in a polite manner and that is how you respond?
right, If i understand correctly, speed is not a major concern when clutchless shifting. In other words, you don't clutchless shift to lose time?
But then again, i've seen videos of racers shifting without using the clutch pedal. Since they are obviously in a race, there must be some advantage to this technique. What i gather from your info and my own in-car tests is that clutchless shifting in road cars, at least, are slower than shifting normally.
Right, wouldn't it be faster to just use the clutch and go through the gears that way?
I didn't mean they weren't necessary what i meant was, unless you knew pretty well the RPM/roadspeed necessary for each gear, your shifts would be very slow because you would have to ease it in and out of every gear.
^researching a word that someone used in an argument. What the person meant originally was synchronizers. He had no idea what he was talking about and tried to say solenoids but then mis-spelled that and wrote silenoids.
Out of curiosity, why would you want to do this in the first place unless you already know how many RPMs each gear is spinning at given a certain speed?
Reduction gearing sounds like a great idea actually. If you are able to get it up and running without serious problems, i bet it will work great, be easy to change resistance and also look really neat.
Edit: I don't know if this helps or not but i remember i once took apart an old Coo Coo clock. Inside i found a menagerie of gears, big to small. In total, i would estimate around 10-12. For a small little clock, it was very interesting. I'm not sure how big your design is but you said its for en electric car so i'm guessing it isn't too large. If you need gears that fit into a 4 inch by 1.5 inch housing, a coo coo clock might be the way to go
Why not attach a wheel such as this http://www.hp-gramatke.net/pic ... physics/water_wheel_3.gif . Place this wheel in a container of water and then have different sized blades. The different sizes (larger/smaller area) will allow you to control the resistence on the system.