FAO people with very low cars.

[-westy-]

Hi guys,

I'm currently doing some research for my dissertation at uni, and am after some experiences from you guys.

I'm researching methods of raising a lowered car, where a traditional jack/ramps would not work, ie very low cars.

I know there are a few members on here who have very low cars, so I was wondering what methods you use? Several planks of wood then a jack? Have any of you created your own method of doing so?

What difficulties did you discover?

It'd be brilliant if you guys could help me out

Thanks

Ben

 

[-westy-]

What do you class as low? As my car is obviously lower than most but I have noi trouble sliding a jack under the side skirts.

I mean particularly low - I'm aiming the product design at the modified car market, so you can imagine how low some of those cars are!

Obviously there are limits; I'm still trying to establish what these are. In some ways these may be set by the strengths of the materials being used (again, still to be established)

 

[-westy-]

Is that really dissertation level stuff? fml

It seemed acceptable to them, so I guess so My degree is Mechanical Design and Manufacture, so kind of fits

Remember there's a lot more to it than just designing it, there's material considerations etc etc

 

[-westy-]

Wood then jack. With a low jack there is no problem. I can't imagine any car that you couldn't jack with wood and a low jack, I can't believe this is dissertation material tbh.

This is only a small part of the whole project, not to worry

What did you do your dissertation on?

 

[-westy-]

Sounds more like GCSE/A level D&T to me...

Lol

 

[-westy-]

Whats the next part of the project work? Making a wooden rounders bat on a lathe or a ninja star in metalwork?

I was going to make a CD rack

 

[-westy-]

Buy a jack which fits under the bumper and gets to the front jacking point (lowered DC2 on coilovers.

I use the same jack for the rear but with a block of wood on, as the jacking point is too high to get the distance required between the rear side jacking points and ground if just using the jack.



Sounds very simple tbh, we did a car jack design in one of our First Year modules.

Dissertation was: Production of Nitrogen Doped Graphitic Nanofibres and Mechanical and Electrical Testing of Biomedical Nanofibre Composites.

4th Year Group Project: Variable angle compressed air golf ball cannon able to replicate amateur and professional spin levels.

^ Project was full of win!!!!!!

That's an awesome project Wasn't yours a BEng/MEng course though?

 

[-westy-]

4th Year........ 4th Year......

I was asking more about the "Eng" rather than the "M"