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yah the cd sais "version 5.9, 1999/230" ?!?! and i have SW2005. I'll try installing it and check it out Jaime, ill try it out n let you see

tottaly different mounts and bellhousing

i had used the express, but i have the actual cosmos works cd. its version 5.0, will that work with my solidworks 2005? Right now Im just playing around with it designing random stuff. I've got a 4 cyl block, and a 8 pot brake caliper and a few other random things. I'm kind of waiting for school to teach me everything I'll need to know about stress analysis and structual integrity. anyways I'm glad you guys like the designs. maybe if the sakuras do get into production, one of you real engineers could look over it and approve it

I'm no proffessional engineer. I'm just a kid who wants to be one. actually I'll be starting a bachelors degree in september. I would love to help someone design some wheels, but they would need to understand that I am not a proffessional and could not guarantee anything. these renderings are purly to see what I can do, and the 5 spoke one is simply a copy of an existing design. To tell you the truth, after looking at some existing wheels and noticing how little metal there is at the lip of the wheel I assumed that there wasn't very much needed to provide stuctual integrity.

you'r only welcome if you turn your car into some kind of z hybrid... jk. very nice hybrid though really looks good with the rest of the lines. how did you modify your oilpan? did you use a mustang pan?

intake tube goes from air filet to in the side of the sc. the big square outlet is connected to the "3.8 sc" tube and goes to the intercooler. then it goes to TB and manifold. In the picture it looks like the backside of the sc is attached to the plenum which goes to the manifold but it isnt.correct me if I'm wrong, last time i seen a sc tbird was a while ago when first seen this setup i was actually impressed with how they designed and plumbed everything together. these cars made i think like 225 hp or something which was equivelant to the 5.0 mustangs

an O2 spray into your intake to cool it down??? why use a sc in the first place if you got o2 spray zfury, i really like centrifugals, and i think its a decent, easy setup for some street applications because of its simplicity, but what has been stated it true, turbos are much better then superchargers for example, you have a motor that will rev to 7000 rpm and 10 psi is the max it will handle without blowing up. centrifugal: you will have boost right away but your setup will only be able to have 10 psi max (or itll blow up). you can set 10psi for 3000 rpm but when you go to 3500 rpm BOOM, so you set it up so it'll have the 10 psi at 7000 rpm. that means that it should have 5 psi at 3500psi (considering its perfectly linear). You will have a very nice lenear torque curve all throughout. next gear you'll be back at 5000 rpm and have to climb the boost ladder. turbo:again, a turbo that will do 10psi (which wont be a very big turbo at all) at 2000 rpm you probably wont have any boost, and the motor may even be a little slower than N/A because of the extra backpressure. but at 3000 rpm itll start to rise and will probably be 5psi, and by 3500 itll become 8-10psi. and from then till redline it'll stay at 10 psi. next gear, at 5000 rpm you'll be at full boost and you'r flying your right up to 3500 rpm in 1st gear you may make more power so say in 1/4 mile race the first 2 seconds you will be faster but soon after that the turbo will catch up this is all not considering parasitic loss I like centifugals because if you dont want an all around faster car, but instead a cheap, very simple setup that you could setup in one day, its the way to go. If someone could post a dyno of similar motors with the same boost with a turbo and a sc. i member a mustang magazine where they did just that. turbo, cetrif, roots and screw. you could easily see the actual numbers and differences in how the power was delivered

yah I wish anyone know how a cnc machine works? do you need to input all the dimensions and details in or do you just load up the program, open a file and it does everything on its own. cuz if you have to input all the dimensions then it would be a bitch

as far as i know, an ls1 is much lighter than an l6 all luminum v8, also weight distribution is lower and further back

17' version and a 5 spoke i wish i could make it a shiny metal, but oh well

gotcha i thought you meant the lip of the center piece making a 17 inch version and it'll have a smooth lip any other orders?

smooth lip on which? the first or seond ones? cuz the second ones do have a smooth lip just hard to see it cuz all the lines, or maybe I'm just not understanding you correctly

a lil custom wheel something i call the Sakura II ps. its a 19x10 wheel

very original car my friend showed me http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/t113668.html

i thought they were supposed to engage at the same time, just the rears with less force

ok did some more work 1st version: pattern fully meshed against outer ring up to wheel shell. and outer ring and hub mating surface have rounded edges 2nd: outer ring and hub surface are chamfered and pattern is meshed into the chamfer 3rd. hard corners and pattern meshed up against the ring also I changed the offset so you could see the pattern better. plus it was kind unrealistic final result will have all edges slightly rounded

couple more examples... not finished yet I tried to get different colours, like gold centers, black bolts and polished shell but when i converted it to jpeg it didnt work. maybe ill fix it later ill make a couple different styles with slight alterations bolt pattern is 4x114.3 right? and i made the center hole 60mm, which looked about right ps. the rim is 15x10 with the center cap at about 13.4"

post some pics