Thread: CVT, which teams are planning on using them for next year?
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Re: CVT, which teams are planning on using them for next year?
The V-belt variable pulley size drive was exactly what I was hinting at. How it works.. simply, is that you take a standard v-belt pulley, cut it in half, and ride a belt over it. If you bring the half pulleys together, the belt rides higher on the pulleys. If you bring them apart, the belt rides lower. The problem is not how to get traction from the pulleys, thats the easy part. The hard part is how to reliably controll the distance between the pulleys. If that was figured out, CVT would be a joke for me. But untill then, I'm cadding new ideas.