This week we were meant to present a literature review and a power point presentation on our project idea. Unfortunately this did not go to plan for us. The issue was that we where struggling to find articles for our literature review. We also had to present our idea but with struggling to find information we had forgotten about the presentation. The only thing we had to present was our gantt chart.
For this reason we hung back a bit as other groups where presenting great ideas compared to ours. It seems as though other people were hanging back as well from presenting. For this reason we decided to wait to the break before we started asking questions. During the first break we talked to Anura about our idea as he had yet to pick a technical adviser and we thought he would be a good place to start.
He talked to us about our idea and said that our exhaust brake idea would only work on manual transmissions, and could only work for automatic transmissions if the driver has selected 1st or 2nd gear, due to the way the transmission couples and de-couples itself from the engine.
He did however like our idea (finally!) and agreed to be our technical adviser for our project. He then gave us some helpful places to start searching for articles for a literature review as after all this time I had literally found nothing on exhaust flap brakes. And had tried to do some comparisons with Jake brakes which are used in trucks as well. Anura told me it would not be relevant so I am hoping that we finally find some good information from the websites he has provided to us.
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