R6 Engine Dyno Mount

[kustomizingkid]

I'm on the formula SAE team at my school, initially got involved because I knew how to weld. I welded the chassis for last years car, thin wall chromoly with terrible coping hahahaha.

Anyways we needed to mount our 03-05 R6 engines up to our engine dyno so I built a new mount. The mounting tabs aren't in plane, silly right... so I CAD modeled a mount that is basically a parallelogram and got the 1/4 mild steel waterjet cut out.

I am only an amateur so don't go too hard on me... I also didn't clean the mill scale off the plates for the tabs which didn't play well with the TIG. I wish I had cleaned all that off as the center mounting tube welded much much better with it gone. Welded with a Lincoln 175 tig, 3/32 red, and 1/16 70-S2... had the welder set to max and the pedal wide open the entire time.

The parts waterjet and tacked together

Interlocking, self aligning tabs, top and bottom are different sizes, idiot proof.

Done

Contamination from the mill scale, big fail on my part.

Much better when cleaned

Wish I had a positioner

All done and the engine mounted up


Thanks for looking.

[Fat Bastard]

Way cool build

Now where are the dyno sheets?

[AndyA]

I see paper stuffed in the intake. Might not have made the dyno pulls yet.

What are you using for the dyno? Looks like it might be homebrew also.

[kustomizingkid]

There wont be any dyno tuning done for a bit, we need to design the new intake manifold first... and build a new header.

The dyno is a shrick steady state unit with a digilog controller that we just calibrated so it actually reads in foot lbs hahahha. For formula sae we have to run a 20mm restrictor so we are limited to around 90 hp... and with the restrictor means we use a custom designed and fabricated intake and exhuast system with a student tuned MoteC M4 ecu.