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Are you looking for advice on how to place holes (jigs) or on how to make holes (which drill bits)? Both can be tricky...

Use mold release, for wet layup I would recommend PVA as that actually leave a thin water soluble barrier film.

Use a metal mandrel, and a heated cure or post cure whenever possible, then as...

The V8 was a year before I got to WWU, so maybe some of the Viking 30 team members will chime in, but I believe the weight was in the 425 lb range. It may not sound like much compared to the singles...

Wow, I wasn’t expecting this when I logged in this morning. Thank you for everything you and your wife have done to develop the series into what it is today. I can’t imagine how boring school would...

Damnit, I'm not joining twitter. Congratulations to all the design semi and design final teams; you've got some good looking cars.

Ouch.

Holy freek'n #$%^ batman...WWU and UW in the Finals? Congrats to both teams!

Too funny. Same advice though if you're in classic and not the workbench ansys has no units, so the conversion is happening in your cad system, same advice, make sure your modeling options match...

Ansys classic? It doesn't have a defined unit system like Solidworks. It's up to you to keep track of it. Your problem is most likely in Solidworks, make sure your modeling options match your...

Regarding the January '08 Racecar Engineering article "Contact Patches" has anyone seen a physical version of Michelin's OCP suspension? The article mentioned it being developed on a 2003 Renault...

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...somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 of us as of Monday.

It's a shame, it was a great place to work, good product and lots of fun, sharp people...

Catia has one of the best CAM packages out there, and since it's tied into the CAD side seamlessly making changes is as easy as it gets. Educational versions are stupid cheap, and it looks very good...

Are you using the stock pressure relief valve? If yes has it's outlet been restricted in any way?

If no, what are you using?

.010" on the diameter should be enough clearance for the taylor tripods...are you positive you actually have that throughout the bore? Breaking the retaining clip would seam to indicate a tight spot...

...also the tire puts load into the wheel mostly via a bearing load distribution on the bottom side of the inner bead...that flange would help shell deformation a great deal.

Still got some?

I don't see why the composite or spring steel flex disks are less reliable when done correctly, and packaging isn't really the issue. The advantage as I see it is weight, CV joints are heavy and...

Ian, I can't seem to find a good picture and I'm away from my computer so no CAD for the moment...the basic idea is:

Hub

Splined end of shaft
threaded end of shaft with nut (obviously larger...

"we always need to support by hand calculations all things done by FEA" very true....but this is one of those "good luck with that" cases http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif ...

On stress analysis, there was some FEA done. All potentially contacting surfaces were defined as surface contacts (not bonded or attached with any kind of bearing constraint) and a tension load...

Thanks for the BYU shots. I love that system, seems like a cheap and easy way to elimnate one of the heavier and more complex parts we had to make. I'm just curious if they had to limit suspension...

But how much plunge can they handle? .125" per?

http://dot.etec.wwu.edu/fsae/HostedPics/2007_FSAE_West/Misc_Before_Gallery/IMG_1366.jpg
http://dot.etec.wwu.edu/fsae/HostedPics/2007_FSAE_West/Wednesday/images/IMG_1364.jpg

Not sure who...

How many of you lift your inside rears in corners?

http://dot.etec.wwu.edu/fsae/HostedPics/2007_FSAE_West/Best_Of/Best_Of_Dynamic/images/IMG_2422_big_lift.jpg
(courtesy of James Waltman)
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What's with the wave shaped composite ?spring?