2014 Lessons Learned
I only got 89.664 mph but all my calcs suggested that I should have got 100mph+. Here are a list of things to check as the possible cause:
- Calcs wrong
- Cd calcualted wrong
- Frontal area calculated wrong
- Power to overcome drag calculated wrong
- Data wrong
- get data logging on scoot working and compare to dyno data
- Bad fuel
- dyno again with fuel used
- run fuel in road scoot and see if it performs worse
- Lab Rat test suggests that fuel might be a contributing factor. Testing on the way to work @100km/h temp was 300F (usually it is 320F). It was very smooth with no pinking. Tried winding it out and it was very slow to get to 110 km/h... lets see what the dyno says next...
- Bad aero
- campare to sitting in the position I actually sat in
- Side Panel (all dyno runs have been done with side panel off)
- with side panel on carb is restricted
- negative pressure under sidepanel (and carb) causing power loss
- Other factors
- rollinig resistance a lot worse than I thought
- front wheel/salt rubbing on radiator acting as brake
- clutch slipping
Todo:
- CB radio
- Data logging system
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