Snowman;
I'm all for you doing this as a project. Hey -- I did similar projects on cam design and FEA'd a
914 trailing arm -- and I'm a freakin salesman with no mechanical technical training (two business degrees degrees though
).
I thought that this is what the Pelican Forum was all about. I bet you that you could even keep it on the "Engine Rebuilding Forum" if you were to start out by modelling a 911 rod. Comparing a 2.2 rod to a 2.7 versus a 3.6 rod I think would be valuable excercise.
Just be open to ideas from the rest of the forum, and we can all learn something as opposed to spouting "butt dyno" results for muffler "updates"!
PS: I think that care should be taken in the expected outcome -- some general learning about con-rods would be great. But given the depth of the subject, I doubt that any vendor specific conclusions could be drawn. But it would be interesting to have some idea of the forces and how they are managed through the rod. Another interesting comparison would be I-Beam versus H-Beam?