When he showed the arm restraints, I could only imagine how funny it would be if he had replaced them with fluffy pink hand cuffs hahaha

@MatthewMenze

2 жыл бұрын

Clearly this should be something we petition of him.

@dipling.pitzler7650

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah , and these would be rated PSV (Porn Shop Verified) but I wonder if SFM would then pass tech inspection at El Mirage !

@Scoots1994

2 жыл бұрын

My first thought was "kinky!"

@mejillonius

2 жыл бұрын

kinky

@shepherdsknoll

2 жыл бұрын

My first though was the suspicious look he would get from the inspectors. Loss of credibility comes to mind.

Technically escape velocity does require direction. Launching towards the center of the earth may not achieve desired results

@SuperfastMatt

2 жыл бұрын

You just have to maintain escape speed through the earth, somehow.

@aktik6000

2 жыл бұрын

​@@SuperfastMatt I'm curious why NASA haven't contacted with you Matt yet 😄

@TheKiltedYaksman1

2 жыл бұрын

You are technically correct - the best kind of correct.

@wolfgangpreier9160

2 жыл бұрын

Minor design error. Even god is not perfect.

@DubiousPanther

2 жыл бұрын

"may not achieve results" It's a non-zero chance then.

Wait. Hold up a second. So you're telling me there's a sport that combines automotive fabrication, conspicuously overengineered bespoke mechanical systems, and bondage? Why am I not doing this right now...?

@Born_Stellar

2 жыл бұрын

it also requires a dry salt lake bed!

@JohnSmith-yv6eq

2 жыл бұрын

@@Born_Stellar and slightly moist lips...

@dooby1445

2 жыл бұрын

Best of all, there’s a higher than normal risk of death!

@009013M3

2 жыл бұрын

@@dooby1445 Don't threaten me with a good time.

@009013M3

2 жыл бұрын

@@Born_Stellar By sheer coincidence that's my favorite kind of salt lake bed.

You know, with enough math we can figure out a function that describes “Matt time” and then we can successfully predict any ”Matt time” into the future! And when it inevitably fails us we’ll call those outliers and throw them out as bad samples.

@maxfcanto

2 жыл бұрын

Thursday at 8 AM PST +/- 167.99 hours

@aktik6000

2 жыл бұрын

​@@maxfcanto Precisely! Hats off!

@EmyrDerfel

2 жыл бұрын

Problem is the feedback mechanism, where Matt observing the function causes it to collapse into a heap of broken logic. Slightly less gruesome than using isotopes to maybe poison a cat.

@superdupergrover9857

2 жыл бұрын

I have a feeling that "enough math" would require a supercomputer to run starting now and ending sometime past the heat-death of the universe.

@SignalJones

2 жыл бұрын

Found the engineers

Never thought I'd see Matt discussing his bondage gear on the channel...

@king_james_official

2 ай бұрын

kinky!!!!

Honestly, designing a mechanism with 0DOF and making it work because you count with the tolerance of the real world is kinda brilliant. I admire that.

Your design philosophy reminds me of one I used to ascribe to the German engineers, back when I was in tech: "Why use only one part, when two will do?"

@kazzTrismus

2 жыл бұрын

the german word for redundant..is redundant which makes it redundant

As a current student in Aerospace Engineering with an Astronautical Focus, with orbital dynamics the direction you point your rocket is incredibly important! The speed value of your rocket's velocity is only a part of the problem. Depending on your direction of travel that speed may not be enough. For instance, if you fired straight up, your escape velocity would actually be HIGHER than if you fired into an orbit and then escaped from there. The reason being that when travelling tangent to the central body's (Earth) surface, you are taking advantage of what is called the Oberth Effect. Essentially the deeper you are in a gravity well, the less energy required to perform an ejection burn, and that burn is entirely a velocity vector and not a scalar speed. It would only work with a prograde (facing forward along your path of travel) vector. As for coming off the ground, if you travel with the rotation of the Earth, you actually expend less fuel to get to orbit compared to if you injected into a retrograde orbit. The reason being you would need to overcome the horizontal velocity of the Earth's surface and then also still get up to orbital velocity. I do agree it should be land velocity racing though. Absolutely 0 reason to call it land speed if it's all in one direction tsk tsk. This is all in good humor btw! I love your content!

@SteveBrownRacing

2 жыл бұрын

If the end with fire coming out of it points up, you will not get to space today.

@paulheitkemper1559

2 жыл бұрын

@@SteveBrownRacing exactly what I was thinking during the video.

@Born_Stellar

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not a rocket scientist, but... I have played a lot of Kerbal space program.

@user-gdxt-7399

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the detailed explanation.You must be great fun at parties, too 😋

@Chris-bg8mk

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm, in land SPEED racing, isn't it always the case that you must duplicate the feat in both directions on the course, in order to cancel slope and wind effects? If this is the case, wouldn't it cancel out the direction part of the vector and reduce mathematically to a scalar? Nerds!

Sidecar rider here (CBR1100XX hack, it's sweet, also uses front swingarm hubcentric steering). You'll find not countersteering is surprisingly natural. Your brain adjusts almost instantly when the bike/car/whatever doesn't respond the way it thinks it should and will instinctively steer in the direction it needs to.

@thefirstmissinglink

2 жыл бұрын

Agree. Just like maneuvering from a parked location.

@EmyrDerfel

2 жыл бұрын

On bicycles, you don't really countersteer at low speeds, and at high speeds you don't have to do it consciously because a 10-15kg with an 85-90kg rider means it doesn't take much countersteer for the centre of mass to project down to the apex-ward side of the line between the contact patches, and you don't have the bike's intertia fighting you.

@crudboy12

2 жыл бұрын

yeah an ATV is setup the same way and those are totally intuitive to steer.

@Godsy_Garage

2 жыл бұрын

I love it and high horsepower cars!! kzread.info/dash/bejne/a5-kytiAqbGfXZM.html

@stevewilliams2498

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking how natural my soap box steering was with rope attached to the axle. Even better with my feet on the axle and my legs as dampers

I am pleased by the Spaceballs reference. There's also a way to add the 5 even without sponsorship; just name it after Lone Star's Winnebago, the Eagle 5. Eagle goes above the number, 5 goes after it.

I think your steering looks good. Remember to hold all of the rod ends with oversized washers. Stop by our pits in June. Old tradition was streamliners used 3 or 4 of the same number (111, 999, 8888, etc. ) Too bad someone took the "last word in LSR" - 9999

@Kalimerakis

Жыл бұрын

why?

Remind me to change the combination on my luggage!

“… and the salt turns pink with the ground up paste of what used to be your arms…” I literally can’t stop laughing!

This is very similar to how aircraft flight controls work. You’ve basically built a rudder system lol.

@JohnSmith-yv6eq

2 жыл бұрын

Since it is at the front...would this be a canard? Can ardly turn in any direction....

@brianb-p6586

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-yv6eq canards are horizontal flight surfaces, not rudders, but it's worth overlooking that for the pun. 😁

Love your videos Matt, thank you for a comedic and hilarious but super intelligent and informative way of investigating and remedying sometimes perplexing and increasingly difficult design considerations and constraints to achieve greatness and satisfaction for the projects and adventures you embark on. You also have the unbelievable willingness and outright decency to invite us peasants, amateurs and lower forms of life along for the ride. I have an enormous respect for your work and Mad skills, developing, designing, manufacturing and implementing so please keep it forthcoming, Thank you. Brent

Trying to decide wether to make a comment about engineers watching your video who then have an overwhelming compulsion to ask you if you "want to know a better way to do that" or simply an all caps "TO THE MATTCAVE!". Probably just go with the engineer joke and an algorythim hail

Adjustable wrenches are my favorite tool for rounding off nuts and bolts, and now they'll be my preferred tool the next time I need to add some rake angle to, well, anything really.

@DangerDaveMurray

2 жыл бұрын

Adjustable wrenches are better for bending sheetmetal than their intended purpose.

@Born_Stellar

2 жыл бұрын

@@DangerDaveMurray he's out of line, but he's right. 🤣🤣

@Hansengineering

2 жыл бұрын

They are really good for massaging out any bending in chainrings or chainring spiders.

@spiv_gennedy

2 жыл бұрын

They're also excellent at seeking, finding, and smacking fingers when doing anything with them at all!

@kazzTrismus

2 жыл бұрын

fyi...... theyre now called "all 16ths wrenches"

We really need a SuperfastMatt and Bad Obsession Motorsports colab at some point. You both make amazing overcomplicated and absolutely beautiful mechanical stuff.

@JDWDMC

2 жыл бұрын

BOM could help him up his bracket game. He doesn't use nearly enough CAD.

@simonholmqvist8017

2 жыл бұрын

@@JDWDMC Indeed. Matt needs to incorporate that cardboard into his workflow.

Matt - What about taking the chassis out to a long smooth hill and gravity drive it to test steering/brakes? Would reveal any large errors - and make for an entertaining video! 😎

@glenns5627

2 жыл бұрын

... would be a hella expensive Soap Box Derby car...

@alexgrindnshine2522

11 ай бұрын

Or push it really fast with the 4Runner

a forward linkage is actually more common than you think. any linked solid front axle vehicle uses this configuration. it naturally gives antidive/ antilift. the way you use the rack is make an intermediate bar to go in between, then mount the joints at whichever point you want. You are right on point with the steering, all linkage systems have some compliance. also your model doesn't account for the steering inclination and castor of the steering, so maybe it binds even less or more than your flat drawing. dont get to invested in getting it perfect though, oem's dont even have perfect geometry. imagine if they had to have different racks and knuckles for every length of Tacoma.

The interesting thing to me about the steering set up was that someone this week mentioned how a certain fictional motorcycle turned. It was by changing the lengths of the struts that held the wheel and I hadn't realized until they said it. I thought that was a pretty interesting (if somewhat over engineered) design for a motorcycle, and this sounds very similar.

you're really pumping out videos at an excellent rate lately, impressive

Built lots of stuff and your steering looks fine. Just a few tips for my experience. Lubrication free ball-joints with a teflon lining start out without backlash so I prefer them for precision linkages. 2nd, the redundant steering links will let you preload the whole linkage to eliminate backlash from other sources. 3rd, what's the back-lash like it that u-joint shaft? Never had good luck getting low backlash with a cross-bolt, but clamp collars have always served me well. (weld a coupling nut on and slit the nut in half for a quick easy clamp-collar.) 4th, how much backlash do your suspension and steering spindles have? That's another source of bump-steer which will be no fun at >100mph.

I'm an engineer and I say your steering is brilliant. Everything from eliminating a steering wheel to pivoting to get out of the vehicle.

Wow that flip up steering is brilliant. I love the redundancy put into it too

I love the shoutout to Matt's Off Road Recovery 🤣

I Love cars but find most car build vids extremely boring and formulaic. This is really entertaining and I feel compelled to watch the entire thing every time. Subbed.

Trophy trucks use a pretty trick rack set-up where the rack is mounted to the frame and tie rods are attached via a wishbone to the center of the rack so they can run the longer control arms with less bump steer. Similar idea might work with a dune buggy center steer rack

The steering looks as technically confusing as it should. Congratulations your technical kudos has risen. I'm confident future Matt will be impressed.

I’m on the crueler end of engineering theory and I would say the steering redundancy was how you dialled out any backlash? (Basically end load the steering rods via the track rod)

Yes. For the street: an alternative to a-arms for the front suspension utilizing linear bearings, center-hub steering and active camber adjustments based on body roll. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Matt, your discussion of the binding issue is brilliant. 🙂👍

A build collab with Matts Off Road Recovery would be epic.

0:31 I'd argue the direction is also important. If we're talking about "escaping" gravity, then it doesn't matter how fast you're going if you're pointed at the earth, where all the gravity is. Then you won't be escaping anything except your future responsibilities.

@schorschkrachbummduke

2 жыл бұрын

But in theory you could...

The 0DOF steering is brilliant. Also really impressed by the swing up bar setup.

Just discovered this channel and I love the comedy you built into the videos🤘🏻😂 Also I find your approach on engineering/ fabrication very intriguing.

Matt, with every video you post I be more sure that your channel is an instant success that took year to get ready.

That KISS explanation is the perfect example of your interesting and entertaining process. Good luck on the track friend.

I don’t know if it’s relevant but in my trials sport it’s common to use a steering rack mounted longitudinally using the forward end as a push rod to an Ackerman cross linkage. It keeps everything out the road.

I can really appreciate this build. Looks to be coming together nicely!

@Godsy_Garage

2 жыл бұрын

I love a Good build and a lot of HOURSPOWER like this !! kzread.info/dash/bejne/a5-kytiAqbGfXZM.html

The lack of countersteering really messed with me when I went on a jet ski tour. 15 years of muscle memory screaming at me to do the opposite of what that ski wanted lol. Never really bothered me on a four wheeler though, I guess the jet ski was extra weird because it did lean, just the opposite direction of a motorcycle.

I like your style of engineering, very much driven by what you can do and what you want to do rather than what is theoretically ideal. Great mix of pragmatism and creativity.

"Land speed" and "escape velocity" are both correct. Land speed records require two passes over the course in opposite directions. The vectors cancel out. Escape velocity requires a vector that doesn't intersect with the mass you are escaping from (ie. the Earth).

Always pleasant to watch and for me, keep learning stuff. Thanks

Love the design! Looks really well thought out

There are several directions that if you travel them at escape velocity you will not leave the planet. Of those directions most will have you meeting the planet and being smeared across it.

@EmyrDerfel

2 жыл бұрын

This is why Matt is ex-Tesla, not ex-SpaceX.

you and bad obsession motorsport should get together and over-engineer a car. it will never get finished but i'll eagerly anticipate each installment

In order to get a landspeed record you have to do it in one direction, then turn around and get the same speed going the other direction. The opposite directions on the velocity vectors cancel and you're left with a simple speed not a velocity... or something 🤷‍♀️

@Pico-hq7ws

2 жыл бұрын

Think you're right there. If you ran 201 "up" and 205 "down" the course, your speed would be 203 = 201+205/2 but your velocity would be 204-201 or vice versa. Ie +/-3? But this would be less than 2 runs of 50 and 60?!

Hey Matt! Love the pivoting steering arm design! That's a great idea in a small package. Cheers!

I can't get enough of these videos man! They're soooo entertaining :D Please never stop.

Matt, thanks for the entertaining engineering class. This is how one of my physics teachers went about and the class was very successful. Keep up the great work!

now I have a much better understanding of speed versus velocity. I thank you for that. Very cool design.

One for the algorithm Matt. Thanks for the entertainment. You go quite some way in restoring my faith in the American population, after several questionable years. (as viewed from Australia).

I always look forward to your videos and they never disappoint!

Great work! Can’t wait to see this run, I’ve built several streamliners over the years Radio controlled though and one uses very similar steer link system to this but on a rigid chassis and on paper it won’t work but in reality the small amount of play and and the angle of the drag link and the knuckle it works great! Good to see you added that 10 degrees are you using or thinking about a steer dampener?

I love getting this deep-dive/high-level overview of how you're designing and building this. It's a fascinating project, and the complexity always amazes me. Also, Spaceballs references are always a win. :D

Hey, you've painted the frame! Nice work.

MORE VIDEOS!!! Great stuff Matt.

Yet another hit to my under achiever complex. Excellent. More soon. Please. I'll wait

You should use sticks dragging in the dirt to steer and then you can make the wheels fixed. If you want to go left just drag the left stick and if you want to go right just drag the right stick. If you want to go straight lift up the dragging sticks.

That is wayyyyy over-engneered. I LOVE it!

You know you already had my like. But with that Spaceballs reference, you now have my love.

I have to say, I watch MORR a fair bit, and it's good mindless entertainment, and frustrating as shit when he welds with his eyes open etc, and I've actually met the smoking tyre and he's seen one of my builds and it blew his mind and got specifically mentioned in a later pod cast, especially the fact that I had race tyres on a truck and was bare foot :-D But I think the calibre of your videos is far above MORR and probably the smoking tyre, too. I really enjoy yours, you get a chuckle out of me nearly every time, and there's some great details - self deprecation earns bonus points. Keep up the good work :-)

I like that Matt Farahs' face in the nissan z thumbnail looks like he's happy to be featured at the end of this video. I love happy coincidences

thank you for finally addressing the Speed / Velocity grammatical issue. Saving some of us sticklers from our own idiosyncrasies. Also, I so appreciate the overengineering. if you can call it that. I just call it prudent. You rock.

You are a very entertaining man. I love this video, you have earned my sub. Looking forward to what else you might do.

Honestly this channel should just be called SuperComplicatedMatt

Turn your front assembly 180 º. Drag a single front wheel, don't push two wheels. Just like a shopping cart front wheel. The Citroën back wheel in the front.🙃 Another thing, instead off pushing rods to press on the driving bar, transform that into pulling rods. Hope that helps, I absolutely love the speed of your presentation!!!

Love that WAN show reference.

Beautiful Work! Good job!

Steering wheel lift looks so satisfying 👌

The outro: You The last shot in the video: The guy she tells you not to worry about

I love it!!!! So entertaining!!! Thanks!!!!!!! Ciao from Italy!!!!

9:54 "So it's probably pretty straight forward" I see what you did there...😂

The steering will feel strange.. as opposed to laying down in a square cigar tube peering just over your toes at 200 mph. Sure. The weird bit will be the steering.

This is my favorite Matt channel.

Dat pivot doh!!!! Sick! Great work!

@sheanyquist

2 жыл бұрын

You also need big washers over each rodend. Something to keep them from falling apart if the sphere takes a dump

love your stuff man, incredible engineering

My favorite Matt channel by far. Although MORR and TST are pretty good too.

Having worked for big 5, I lean to the 5 guys hope 🤣

This is surprisingly a nice, clean build.

Keep up the good work! Love these videos!

Bloody marvelous, old chap.

Great fun watching..... keep going .

That's not quite true about escape velocity, you ain't gonna get to space if you're pointing down.

@cliffdavis

2 жыл бұрын

Depends on your personal beliefs in deities, the afterlife, and the hypothetical location of said afterlife.

@JohnSmith-yv6eq

2 жыл бұрын

@@cliffdavis and if there is the correct sized hole through the flat earth.....

Great video as always!! Thanks!!

Still waiting on the “All hail the algorithm “ stickers

very nicely constructed

I assume 1337 was already taken! Your uploads are actually kinda eerily regular. I often can't complete anything in a month!

Wow, super excited I found your channel. An aspiring engineers dream

I just got home, turned on KZread and was very happy to see five new videos from my favourite channels. Which one will I watch first? This Matt Channel, of course!

the second the space balls clip played i was like YESSSSS but then you stoped a number short

Great work and look forward to the next one. How does aero safety work here? Is there a wind tunnel requirement?

Awesome. Persuading all those different assemblies to interact gracefully is about as complicated as cooking Crêpes Suzette in outer space.

I love your videos because I think I'm dumb but intelligently minded, and I feel that you're very intelligent yet "dumb-minded." I feel like you're my idol, but I still feel a sense of superiority as I immediately misstep and fumble my way through life and all my own unfinished projects.

I'm sorry Matt the swing arms need to be gold. Start again... hail the algorithm

@christopherdean1326

7 күн бұрын

He could just paint them gold.....

For what it's worth you are our favorite Matt Channel.

Hey Matt, I'm concerned about your over-center pins coming unlocked. Do the handles that operate the pins lock in place with a detent or anything? I use these style of pins and clamps daily in fixturing and the ones we use, the handles don't lock unless there's a pretty significant force acting on the main pin or clamp arm. Without a detent positively holding the operating handle in place, I'd be concerned about those vibrating themselves unlocked mid-run. Btw, LOVE your videos, dude.

That sponsor joke was worth a good chuckle.

I'm relieved to see that your arm restraints still allow for "Jazz hands!"