A CVT Comet 790 series with a range of 3.38:1 and 0.

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The CVT is designed to have infinite gear ratios between its high and low range. A strong rubber belt is used to connect the drive pulley and the driven pulley. We chose the Polaris P-90 CVT. This CVT consists of the pri ary spring! ca weights! secondary springs! and secondary ca . These four para eters control nearly every aspect of the trans ission such as engage ent rp ! shift speed! acceleration rp ! and belt grip! up shifting! bac" shifting! and any others. The ability to fine tune these para eters will allow us to a"e the CVT as efficient as possible. This CVT provides us with gear ratios of #.$#%& in the low range and 0.'(%& in the high range. To connect the CVT to the engine and to our chosen gearbo)! achining is re*uired. This includes the boring out of the drive pulley to fit the engine shaft! and the splining of the gearbo) input shaft to connect to the driven pulley of the CVT. To connect the CVT to the a)les a chain driven syste or a gear bo) can be used. We wanted to "eep the efficiency and reliability of our power-train syste high. +ears are the ost efficient way of trans itting power. ,aving a chain in the syste provides another area for failure with the possibility of the chain being "noc"ed off of the sproc"ets. -t also increases the aintenance of the syste by having to constantly aintain the tightness of the chain as it stretches and having to replace the chain after e)tensive use The configuration of the vehicle is rear engine and rear wheel drive. .or attaining a given speed in such a scenario! the only thing we can vary is the outer dia eter of the driving tire. .or (0 " /hr! outer dia eter of the tyre ca e out to be &( inches. This dia eter is too s all as ground clearance decreases. ,ence in order to counter this proble options available are% &. 0anipulation of power trans ission outside the gear bo) using gears! sproc"ets and chain. 1. 2ngaging the reverse gear lever while driving in all the forward gears and using the first gear in forward as reverse gear. We decided to wor" on the latter option and so did reverse engineering process trying to find if the gears would be able to trans it the increased tor*ue. Also following this ethod! &. We were able to chec" the weight 1. 3educe the cost of the vehicle as we avoided the use of additional gears! sproc"ets and chains. #. We used standard parts! thus increased the reliability of the trans ission syste .

To find the speed of the vehicle corresponding to different gear ratios! the for ulae used is Velocity on road 4 51 67636(089 5:6&0006+8 ; /hr 5$8 Where! + 4 gear ratio 7 4 revolutions per inute 3 4 outer radius of the tire in eters. <o e of the calculations for reverse and forward orientation are as follows% .-7A= +2A3 3AT-> <P22? 3<T #&.@A%& 0.(A? <2C>7? &$.'0%& &.&09? T,-3? &&.@0%& &.$1? .>B3T, '.#A%& 1.$1? .-.T, AA.0$%& 0.#$? Table (. Calculations for reverse and forward orientation