Le Poupe Active Air Brake Spoiler Concept

Started by BigMike, December 04, 2010, 10:56:27 AM

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BigMike

I was thinking about the toilet seat brake activated air brake/spoiler last night and I think I have a good idea.

The simplest way would be to have a direct cable-linkage system connected to the brake pedal itself, but this is a safety issues in the event the spoiler system jams and prevents the brake pedal from moving.

So the next idea would be to use a servo or some other electric motor and use a trigger system with our brake pedal. But this would be complicated and we'd have to account for how much a setup like this would cost against our $500 budget.

So then I had this great idea! Let's use some large vacuum diaphragms!!!! Think about it, this is the perfect solution: When you need to brake, you shut the throttle which maximizes the intake manifold vacuum! I bet if we ran 2 or even 4 diaphragms we could power 2 toilet seat air brakes without any trouble, and vacuum diaphragms are a dime-a-dozen at the wrecking yard :_order:

Here are some examples on YouTube of an air brake spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/v/mvfG_jEXosw?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

http://www.youtube.com/v/-mzk-PnC1DI?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

http://www.youtube.com/v/RJ3RnJSOmpY?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

http://www.youtube.com/v/ByEhbC1iCH4?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

http://www.youtube.com/v/rmpsV-fkjwQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
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Sirdeuce

Insted of vacuum diaphrams, use pop up headlight actuators. We have a few sitting around here.
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BigMike

ahhhhhh that is a great idea! Those actuators are pretty powerful, right? The good thing is that the car came with them, so it's no cost at all!
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BigMike

Hey, I didn't notice this earlier (I posted in a hurry), but the 2nd video posted above (yellow car) has a split spoiler that is used also to help with cornering. We could apply this concept to our dual toilet seat idea also.
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Sirdeuce

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on wakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."

BigMike

Quote from: Sirdeuce on December 04, 2010, 02:08:34 PM
Differentiating spoiler!! SAWEET!!

* BigMike like this

:thumbs:

I want to build a prototype for the LeMons car and a final version for my own car. I think it would be awesome to have an active spoiler on my own car :yesnod:
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Sirdeuce

Two toilet seats opening separately in turning, and simultanious on braking?
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on wakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."

BigMike

Yes Sir!

We can hook up an accelerometer to my BASIC Stamp microprocessor and program it accordingly.
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BigMike

I'd like to build a first basic prototype for the March event which is just an air brake only, not a turning spoiler.

Once we prove the concept works and can make it an entire weekend, we'll try the split seat idea :idea:
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