Senior design project Options

[i love porsche]

hey everyone, i figured id post this here to see what you all thought

I am a ME student at NJIT and for a senior design project, Myself and 2 other students will be redesigning the front suspension of the 914. the goal of the project will be to optimize the structural rigidity of the control arm while decreasing weight, also to try and optimize the camber curves and adjustability for racing use.

prettymuch we would be designing a racing control arm. depending on the results, this may be something that could go into a production run..who knows

what im asking is for donations of stock parts. A arms, shocks, tie rods...

i want to try and recreate a front corner of the car that will be easy to modulate and work on for demonstration and testing purposes.

so let me know your thoughts/ideas

thanks
Aaron

[i love porsche]

ok well here are some pictures of the finished product with some build pictures

a few notes

the rod end chosen i do not believe will be strong enough..not the shank, but the ball to race connection, i believe the ball might pop out, so if anyone has any good sources for racing rod ends, id appreciate some advice

the control arm was built on a jig, not the best one, but good enought to duplicate.

these reuse the stock torsion tubes fromt the stock control arms, if we were to make new ones, the cost would have gone way up

this was also my first time welding round tube...so its not the greatest welds, but they should hold up. i tried to get a better welder to do the welding for me, but we couldnt make it happen in the time constraints.

the ball joint pin was made from a grade 5 bolt. for actual use i would want to upgrade the bolt

and it does fit togethher with the stock parts, for our final presentation we had a jig which held all of the suspension pieces together

so..comments and questions?


i have MANY other pictures of the whole process, so if there is anything you would like to see specifically, just let me know