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Julian Edgar
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Добавлен 29 окт 2011
I write technical books, mostly on modifying cars. This channel covers some of the topics from my books - aerodynamics, electronics, on-road testing and car suspension. My books are available from Amazon.
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Interested in amateur race car aero? Here’s how to do it. Effectively.
Просмотров 9364 часа назад
So many people just guess, copy others or go by rules of thumb. All are really poor ways of doing aero mods. Here's how to do it properly. My book is available at www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Aerodynamics-Modification-Development-alternative/dp/B0C87VYVL8 or Amazon in your country.
Five mistakes people make about car aerodynamics
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.19 часов назад
Five misconceptions about car aero: reducing lift/gaining downforce causes increased drag; it's easy to reduce drag and so improve mileage; lift doesn't matter on a road car; spoilers always cause drag; and wings and splitters are best for downforce. My book is available at www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Aerodynamics-Modification-Development-alternative/dp/B0C87VYVL8 or Amazon in your country.
Quick guide to my four best sellers
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Here are the books to buy - and why. See them at www.amazon.com/stores/Julian-Edgar/author/B00C3MRYN4 or Amazon in your country
Making your All-Wheel-Drive handle
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.14 дней назад
Got an AWD car? So how do you make it handle? So much depends on the torque split! Buy the book at www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Ride-Handling-Modification-Development/dp/B0D7327WSB or Amazon in your country.
Want to improve your car’s aero? Work under the car!
Просмотров 5 тыс.14 дней назад
Easily and cheaply reduce drag and lift - and even get downforce. Buy my aero book at www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Aerodynamics-Modification-Development-alternative/dp/B0C87VYVL8
Car driving enthusiasts are missing the best thing about EVs: throttle control
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.14 дней назад
Haven't driven a high performance EV? You must! See all my books at www.amazon.com/stores/Julian-Edgar/author/B00C3MRYN4
Understanding car aero through one image
Просмотров 41 тыс.21 день назад
Just one image tells you nearly everything you need to know about car aerodynamics. Buy my aero book at www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Aerodynamics-Modification-Development-alternative/dp/B0C87VYVL8
Finding out how well your exhaust flows
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.21 день назад
Measure how well your exhaust flows cheaply and easily on the road by doing a quick test. My books are available at www.amazon.com/stores/Julian-Edgar/author/B00C3MRYN4 or Amazon in your country.
This book covers material you’ll find in no other book on suspension!
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Well-meaning people often write in and tell me I should read a certain book on suspension. Yes... I have. And that's why this book covers material you'll find nowhere else. Buy the book at www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Ride-Handling-Modification-Development/dp/B0D7327WSB or Amazon in your country.
How hatchback and wagon rear spoilers work
Просмотров 5 тыс.21 день назад
Want to reduce lift or drag? Here's how to do it on squareback cars. Buy my aero book at www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Aerodynamics-Modification-Development-alternative/dp/B0C87VYVL8
Amateur car aero modification is easy!
Просмотров 2,8 тыс.Месяц назад
Think modifying your road or race car's aero is difficult and expensive? Think again! Buy my aero book at www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Aerodynamics-Modification-Development-alternative/dp/B0C87VYVL8
What is good road car handling? (Or, what should you be aiming for?)
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.Месяц назад
People often think that handling is just about grip. But it's actually a lot more than that. www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Ride-Handling-Modification-Development/dp/B0D7327WSB or Amazon in your country.
Strut bars do nearly nothing. Sway bars do a lot!
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.Месяц назад
There's lots of confusion around about strut bars and sway bars. Basically, strut bars do almost nothing... but sway bars can transform a car's handling balance. www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Ride-Handling-Modification-Development/dp/B0D7327WSB or Amazon in your country.
Five things people get wrong about car suspension
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.Месяц назад
When thinking about road handling, all these are wrong: (1) To improve handling, you need to change all the suspension parts. (2) Tyres fix handling. (3) Aftermarket companies sell matched shocks and springs. (4) If you improve handling, the ride gets worse. (5) Suspension is really complicated to understand. www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Ride-Handling-Modification-Development/dp/B0D7327WSB or Amazon ...
You don’t have any engineering qualifications, so why should I believe what is in your book?
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.Месяц назад
You don’t have any engineering qualifications, so why should I believe what is in your book?
I already have good books on suspension. Why do I need your book?
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I already have good books on suspension. Why do I need your book?
Why suspension beginners should buy this book
Просмотров 719Месяц назад
Why suspension beginners should buy this book
Making your late model road car handle for under $500
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.Месяц назад
Making your late model road car handle for under $500
Handling terms: how to identify what’s happening when you corner
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.2 месяца назад
Handling terms: how to identify what’s happening when you corner
Making your front wheel drive handle
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.2 месяца назад
Making your front wheel drive handle
Suspension set up for road and track cars is not the same
Просмотров 3,2 тыс.2 месяца назад
Suspension set up for road and track cars is not the same
For best handling, don't change the tires first
Просмотров 7 тыс.3 месяца назад
For best handling, don't change the tires first
Sway bars: the easiest way to improve your car’s handling
Просмотров 30 тыс.3 месяца назад
Sway bars: the easiest way to improve your car’s handling
Hi Julian, love your videos, thanks so much for making them. Question about when you say "stickier front tyres" on FWD/front biased AWD: are you targeting to achieve a differential in grip between front and back?e.g. semi-slicks on the front but standard on the rear? or would semi-slicks all round be the preferred option? thanks.
I mean front tyres that provide more grip than the rears.
all of your videos and reading your books makes me want to get back to modifying my cars, just been too busy for anything other than maitnence haha. Will be signing up
It's 2024, sadly a Vibration App is no longer what you think. You may want to search "Vibration Meter" specifically.
Yes I did notice that when searching, but I figured my readers and viewers were smart enough to work out the difference...
I'm in 👍
Autospeed 2.0? Yes please!!
No, my current materials are way ahead of anything published in AutoSpeed.
I'm glad. I loved you in Autospeed and I'm looking forward to the new newsletter.
Hmmm. For my content, you will need to buy my books. The newsletter doesn’t attempt replace the books, just to introduce people to some of the books’ ideas. A 300 word newsletter does not equal multiple 100,000 word books!
Thank you ❤ keep making videos you are a great teacher
Will buy your books soon soon soon!
I appreciate this. I’ve been reading your book, but it helps to have some written guidance against it even if it’s just a narrated path through one concern. I can then reference the section in the book while looking at some of my other project materials so I can try to come up with a hypothesis and test plan.
Yes, but the newsletter will be primarily for people who *don't* own the relevant book.
If you have trouble signing up your email make sure that there isn't an extra space at the end of your email address.
this sounds interesting, thank you friend
I'm wondering that cannot the manufacturers use computer simulation to do the matching with a vehicle? 🤔
All manufacturers use computer simulations - but all manufacturers also fine-tune the suspension by testing.
@@JulianEdgar Thank you for the answer. I take it that the simulation is not accurate enough or the current state of the art tools are not developed well enough (that the aftermarket set manufacturers use), that you cannot do the process well enough in simulation. Yes, obviously testing is used, but testing especially in the full setup is often also most expensive as you highlighted. To highlight the principle, take an example from the Wright brothers when they were solving the problem of the flying machine, the airplane. Solving also this issue involved massive amount of experimentation and testing for many different areas, which of one was to figure out the optimal wing profile. Initially they tested the wings by flying them like a kite. It was very laborious (expensive) and not very accurate. But then they figured out that instead of making the wing move to test it, they decided to make the air move, so they developed a wind tunnel. This allowed them to test different wing profiles much faster, iterate the design much faster and with much better repeatability. Well, I'm just trying to highlight here the principle about testing and cost of testing, that the purpose of it is just to find out some truth and valuable information. Any shortcut you can come up in obtaining that same information is totally allowed and encouraged.
I'm imagining pressing the lubricated heel of my hand into the car from left to right and basically where i'd meet the most resistance seems to be where the high pressure is. Is this roughly accurate?
You can think of it like that but unfortunately that idea gives you a lot less than half the picture (low pressures are more important than high pressures).
Great video. After watching only 2 I ordered the book. Your explanation is clear, very well structured, easy to understand, peppered with the right amount of common sense and simply very very interesting. Glad I haven't modified my beloved Mazda MX5 ND yet, Mazda knows a couple of things about car handling I guess... Can't wait to receive your book and maybe find a couple of useful tweaks under your guidance 😉
Awesome, thank you!
Finally someone with both knowledge and common sense on the tube . I just watched a couple of his vids and ordered the book. Best part is his subtle warning about after market parts companies with marketing goals. Also, more is not always better, in fact more often it isn't.
I used this image about 10 years ago to determine the proper placement of hood radiator venting on a turbocharged MX-5, as the most effective venting HAD to be where the above hood pressure was the lowest, but still aft of the radiator. As the effectiveness of the radiator was directly related to the pressure differential between the front and the rear of the radiator. That single change made the difference between slowly headed toward overheating on the track in about 10 minutes to being able to complete a full 30 minute session without significant heat accumulation.
Yeah, but better again to measure on the actual car you're working with, and measure the differential between below- and -above hood pressures at various points. All cheap and easy - and covered in the book!
What sucks is what is allowed isn’t always the best way to do it.
Yes but I see so many cars with, for example, the wing angle all wrong. Obviously, have never been tested. And just read amateur race car groups - all aero advice is rule of thumb, copying, etc....never proper aero testing.
You can still work within the race rules to optimize your setup. By definition, if you do the same thing everyone else is, you're not gonna get an edge.
@@JulianEdgar I agree test test test but like F1 cars aren’t the best just the best they can get away with due to regulations. Also some places have regulations on what you can do on a road car. Like how much ground clearance you are allowed. Some states say you need to keep the ground effect at rim level so that could be a lot of very little.
@@michaelblacktree yes but it’s limits what you actually can do
Yes but there’s testing… and there’s testing. Eg if you’re not measuring aero pressures, your testing is not very good.
its so depend on the bodywork shape and the space underneath the car. that lines shown there could change according to the factors i mentioned. i rather simulates the car punching through a sitting air volume and simulates the energy exchange on all the relationships between the ambient air around the car. and then convert that informations to energy transferred to the car themselves. i cant have "formula" for that. since it will change depends on the shapes and the spaces around the car.
Obviously the pressure distribution depends on the shape of the car. But this video shows the fundamental concepts.
I've been trying to find someone to make me a stiffer rear bar for a while and failed, and there's nothing off the shelf. I already have the stiffest factory parts both ends of my V8 so no 'upgrade' options, but I can get a softer front bar from a V6. Is that really a sound option for an overall improvement, or should I try harder to upgrade the rear? Stiffer rear springs did make a big difference.
Sure you can go softer at one end to achieve the same effect. That's especially the case if the car is already too stiff in roll - ie bad ride quality over one-wheel bumps and skatey in wet conditions.
Thanks :) I've been thinking about this a lot since watching the video, and this balance of front and rear bar may go some way to explaining why my V6 turns in better than my V8 (iron v6 vs alloy V8 so they weigh about the same). Both have the same rear bar, but the V6 has a hollow 29mm front bar whereas the V8's is 29mm solid. Its a simple swap, and I think the V8 probably is too stiff in roll as you suggest. I'll try the softer bar in the V8 and see what it does 👍
Danke!
Thank you.
Thanks. Yes suspension yet unequaled.❤😊
Hello, I have a question, with the switch open and the pull up resistor connected to 5V. If I used a meter set to read volts DC, would I see the 5Volts at the switch?
Yes
In a vehicle where you have installed a torque split controller (ex: Attesa system in the Skyline lineage of cars), how would one use the controller effectively to inform the best way to tune the suspension and handling characteristics?
Testing.
Would putting louvers on the raised part of a cowl induction hood recycle the hot air?
I'd need to see a picture as I am not sure what you mean.
Hi Julian, this book is currently listed as unavailable on Amazon in the United States. Any idea what's going on? Thanks!
I am chasing it up with Amazon. No reason from my end.
It's available again.
Thanks for the video, very informative. I have your book on order, looking forward to reading it.
I hope you enjoy it.
Could you make a vidéo about hood vents, how it reduce drag, lift and engine bay temp
the Australian accent always gives credibility to car related advice
This man is a genius both in his knowledge and his ability to explain an extremely complex topic of suspension design. I make this statement as an engineer in the automotive design space and too many engineers in the field do not have the knowledge depth this man has in his and things are done because that’s what the standard process says, but that engineer lacks the true understanding of the subject therefore we produce a car that handles like crap or lacks good handling because the fundamentals are not there. Thank you for amazing explanations.
Thank you!
Have you covered the topic of oversteer/understeer on corner entry/exit? It seems clear that mid-corner you should be balanced, but on entry and exit I assume that is not to case
I think the car should be balanced at all parts of the corner. What is the alternative? Corner entrance oversteer or understeer? Corner exit oversteer or understeer? However, a different question is: can a car oversteer/understeer on turn-in (or on corner exit), and if so, what can I do about it? The answer to that is (1) yes, and (2) a variety of things.
Williams and Kick Sauber engineers are watching this video on repeat and scratching their heads