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IT WAS AN ACT THE WHOLE TIME! :cool:

I agree with the others though. Especially in professional environments, it's really discouraging to receive messages and e-mails from people with "u" for you...

Dude, your language needs to be refined if you ever want to be taken seriously, like, in life.

Sure, you can glue a patch on. But when customers (sponsors, faculty, students, family) look at the car, an aesthetically displeasing repair (mismatched coloring, visible lines, etc.) is not a great...

Yikes! Been a while since I checked back. Couple things.



Jay! What an interesting point. I'll have to look at the solid mechanics again before I can respond intelligently, but I suspect this...

My reservation about Dacron is that it's not that quick to repair. Yeah it's cheap and light, but everyone was always so terrified of accidentally kicking it! There are other similar solutions out...

Before I was treasurer we got ~$5k from the college of engineering, ~$5k from the university if we begged for it. Fund-raised another $5k and made a car. Probably received <$2k per year in gifts...

If you have not done so already, you may choose to introduce yourself before asking for help!

PS: I didn't realize there was another SAAB nut on this forum, Drew. We should talk sometime :)

Folks.. let me preface this with the following - I am not trying to be coy or get you hung up on terminology. Just expressing my opinion (which I believe to be factual :D)

To reiterate: My purpose...

William - I do not mean "thrust-rated" when I refer to rod ends that are rated for shear loads. I mean a rod end that has been fully threaded into it's a-arm tube housing, used as a ball joint, in...

I'll try to get all my pictures into an album today. Will post back with link. Probably.

Tim:

I disagree - commercial rod ends are not rated for shear loads. At least not any that I've come across.

You'd have to make your own calcs using measured geometry and material grade...

Dude, clnanae pu yrur psot ist alamsot aoimsposbel to figure otutu what youre tyrign yo say!

Also, others on this forum will NOT answer your questions until you give us a reason to. Who are you?...

I'd put my life savings on the FSAE car as well for what it's worth.

fundamentally you must have 4 wheels, and you cannot run a dual rear wheel since the smaller of the two tracks must be at least 75% of the other.

however, keep in mind that the rules don't say...

Great thread, all. Looking forward to getting into these references.

For FSAE, I maintain the OPINION that 2D napkin-sketches are good enough for a team looking to get in the top 10. There are so...

Man. Wish I had the time and brainpower to sit down and try to understand so much of what's being discussed here.

Who's with me?

Bill... Thanks for your valuable and professional contributions to this forum!

Thanks for laying things out, Z. I was looking forward to your response. I'll get to work on some more sketches. Or a cardboard model, or something.

Bill,

Thanks for your reply. I have to say, I'm pretty perplexed by a lot of what's in your comment. I still have a fundamental mis-understanding of "body roll," but certainly you aren't saying...

Konrad,

Our team struggled with this as well. I suggest that you list every rule which applies to the seat or firewall, and start from there. You will notice many requirements that your seat would...

Mech,

Thanks again for chasing this issue with me... I understand what you say about LLTD, it has come up several times in several books. Herb makes it abundantly clear with a couple of examples...

Pete and mech,

Thanks for you responses. I'm still caught up on defining body roll though. I often try to relate vehicle parameter changes to two different vehicles, to see the effect on weight...

Hi all. I graduated and am no longer a part of blue hen racing's formula team, but I've been reading more about vehicle dynamics.

In "Chassis Engineering," Captain Herb makes a couple of...

Pat,

Engineers don't need to read.

Gosh!

Go find out.