All, I am now retired and have time to devote to the things that I have long wanted to do personally but never seemed to have time for. One of these things is to finish the coding I started over 13 years ago, on a simple desktop program that contains all of the handy, useful and interesting calculations, formulas, charts, graphs, etc. that I have accumulated over the last 25 years.
I am creating this post because I am looking for ideas of what to put in the program. For instance, I read a post last night about reducing the weight on your vehicle in order to improve performance. My first thought was, without going to the track to get a timing slip every time you take some weight off the car, how do you know how much what you did will help?
So I said to myself, "Self, pay attention here. This is the kind of thing I can put in the program that would be real handy." So I got up this morning, well almost this morning, and started working on putting this function into the program.
I know there are a lot of programs out there that figure compression ratio, combustion chamber size, displacement, etc. and I have all of that but I also have some things that you don't see very often (or at all). I'm trying to make this thing as complete as possible and I would appreciate any ideas on what would be handy to have in the way of how to calculate specific values, formulas that are a pain to work with, anything like that.
Some examples of what I have so far are:
BTW, I will post the part of the program about increasing performance through weight reduction as soon as I finish it.
Thanks all.
I am creating this post because I am looking for ideas of what to put in the program. For instance, I read a post last night about reducing the weight on your vehicle in order to improve performance. My first thought was, without going to the track to get a timing slip every time you take some weight off the car, how do you know how much what you did will help?
So I said to myself, "Self, pay attention here. This is the kind of thing I can put in the program that would be real handy." So I got up this morning, well almost this morning, and started working on putting this function into the program.
I know there are a lot of programs out there that figure compression ratio, combustion chamber size, displacement, etc. and I have all of that but I also have some things that you don't see very often (or at all). I'm trying to make this thing as complete as possible and I would appreciate any ideas on what would be handy to have in the way of how to calculate specific values, formulas that are a pain to work with, anything like that.
Some examples of what I have so far are:
- How much will your rpm fall when you shift gears with a certain drive-train setup.
- Calculate piston speed.
- Volume-metric Efficiency
- Amount of displacement change by bore or stroke.
- Compression ratio: Calculated - Compression Ratio Change from milling - From compression check
- Ring & pinion required for (x) ratio
- Chassis weight distribution
- Lateral cg of vehicle
BTW, I will post the part of the program about increasing performance through weight reduction as soon as I finish it.
Thanks all.
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