After a rather long weekend of trying to come up with ideas for automotive issues I thought I had come up with the best idea possible. My plan was that I wanted our group to build something physical to show a working model of it.
My idea was to build a water pump that was controlled by a solenoid, so is that it would disconnect when the engine is cold allowing for the engine to warm up even faster than ever thought possible before. We had then decided that if this was the case we would then go with Gerry as our technical adviser since our project was engine related and Gerry teaches the course about engines.
This idea did not last very long however, after talking to Gerry about our idea he quickly told us that the idea would not work. He told us that the coolant would quickly begin to boil next to the cylinders in the engine block and cylinder head, yet the coolant further away would still be cold which would mean that sensors could not detect this. This would eventually lead to the engine overheating and seizing.
I feel as if time is running out to think of a good idea and I feel quite bad now as my only good idea would wind up not working. Its back to the drawing board I suppose and Roman has told us that we have to come with an Idea by the end of this second week. I do not feel very confident about this at the moment.
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