Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Manual installation of exhaust systems for CT Suzuki Hayabusa 2008
Many of our customers use WD-40 applied for joints to ease mounting, adaptation and/or disassembly. Step 3: Remove bodywork: remove all push pins, starting with 2 under the motorcycle fairings, holding two side together. Then remove the pins of two push behind the wheel front holding the bottom of the screen for side fairings.
Remove the screen (piece of Chin). Remove the belly pan, disconnecting the pins to push back the regulator/rectifier and 4 mm Allen screw on the right side below the assembly of peg and foot brake. Remove mm (2) 4 Allen screws on the right side fairing, and (2) screws below the handle bars (one black, one silver). Repeat on the left side of the bike.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Components of the Suspension System
- Control Arm: A movable lever that fastens the steering knuckle to the frame of the vehicle.
- Control Arm Busing: This is a sleeve which allows the control arm to move up and down on the frame.
- Strut Rod: Prevents the control arm from swinging forward and backwards.
- Ball Joints: A joint that allows the control arm and steering knuckle to move up and down and sideways as well
- Shock absorbers or Struts: prevents the suspension from bounce after spring compression and extension
- Stabilizer Bar: Limits body roll of the vehicle during cornering
- Spring: Supports the weight of the vehicle
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Noise and Vibration Optimization of a Gasoline Engine Peugeot Citroen

The block, head and transmission were constructed of predominantly low-order hexahedral elements, whilst the ancillaries were modelled using a combination of high order tetrahedral, shell and beam elements wherever appropriate. The technical approach detailed here is representative of Ricardo’s standard methods applied to the analysis of the powertrain to optimise its noise and vibration characteristics.
Modal Analysis, Dynamic Load Calculation, The excitation loads acting on the engine were calculated using ENGDYN. ENGDYN is used to predict the time-domain response of the 3-dimensional vibration of the coupled crank train and cylinder block system with non-linear oilfilms at each of the main journal bearings.