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Auckland 2005 - Bat shit crazy car that brent and the boys built! only car I can remember that failed noise because they were around the 125dB mark!! put the...

words will never leave, he has somehow become a lecturer at monash and is the academic supervisor.

dresses are only bought if the team finishes all events and have to be bought from the op shop in...

hahaha, good point, how silly of me to suggest such a thing http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

yer monash were lucky to recruit dr emmett brown, so one point twenty one...

malcolm i wouldnt have let you into the workshop if i was still around, stealing classified secrets, what was rache thinking! http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

but now its...

the Monash guys were telling me they got their stickers and weighed in at 231kgs. The car got a little fatter since the aus comp.

Direct acting shocks can work without being digressive and too heavy. With the track widths getting narrower and frames getting wider it does make sense to go direct acting.

as for formula tank,...

the dampers are ohlins st44's. The link you can see isnt the steering its actually one of the unsprung wing mounts, we have a low mounted rack.

Just updating the Monash progress, last Thursday night we launched our 2009 car below are some photos. We are not far from driving but exams and final year research projects are holding us up a bit...

Monash are interested, we run the bridgestone wets in this compound and I have been trying to source a set of the slicks for quite a while. What sort of price are we looking at? Is it going to be...

if i said yes would you think less of me...

well when you come down, give us a bell and we can smash some beers.

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we were told the comp dates are 10th to 13th of December 2009.

we can aid in this drinking and going out business. most of us are free the week after comp so if you guys are up for it give us a bell.

Single shear pickups shouldn't be a problem if you know all the problems associated with it and design the upright to make sure it's as stiff and strong as a double shear pickup.

UWA have been...

we were rolling on monday. just waiting on a few bits and pieces to get back before we drive.

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The staking tool is usually in the bearing catalogue. you have to make it yourself.

http://www.aurorabearing.com/Files/aurora-bearing-technical-data.pdf

on page 12 there is a drawing of the...

we are making our car to suit 2009 rules or formula bus as we are calling it now.

see the attached photos showing the 2008 bulkhead on the 2007 bulkhead.
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You should be mindful that alot of the camber compliance comes from wheel centres, rims, uprights, wishbones and the like flexing.

We had massive problems with too much positive camber mid corner,...

with the staking, make sure you make your holes are to the manufacturers spec, especially the chamfers that they recommend, i had a spherical unstake itself because the chamfer was too small and...

haha i wish... that would be pretty sweet though...

If there are any international teams racing at FSAE-A 2008 that need somewhere to work on their car and test please feel free to contact me. We have lots of space around our workshop and we also have...

The link above doesnt work anymore but the applications are still open.

For thoese interested in applying please forward me your resumes, i will pass them straight onto the managers to organise...

Bosch Australia is looking for a student engineer in their vehicle applications department.

The job application is at the website below.
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Bosch Australia is looking for a student engineer in their vehicle applications department.

The job application is at the website below.
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we used to use Java foil, but now we are happy with the wings we have and we just modify the exisiting wings.

We also use gambit and fluent for our cfd, but be careful, there is a quite a...

We weld inch RHS together to roughly resemble the base of wishbones, turn up some spacers to take our bearing cups and stake in ends, mill holes in the rhs at the correct position, weld the spacers...