Iv got a fellow student friend who is with me in our final year @ portsmouth. he is working on a personal project i believe where he intends to design his own kit car.
For software, dont underestimate Pro Engineer. Very accurate designs can be made aswell as lots of structural testing.
@FreakyParts
What! No VTEC for the 7 yo?
I have 10,000 hours on it. Top bollock software.
I should clarify some more: My questions are related to specifying the baseline setup, I.e, "my goals are X, Y and Z, what brakes/suspension/powertrain do I need to create a well balanced car?"
My expectations are that a few will have everything calculated as precisely as possible, some might pencil out some back of the envelope calculations and correct it all in testing, and the rest will copy something established.