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There is one pretty major risk though: if your brackets or supports for your muffler fail, things like this happen:

Illinois car on fire

I was one of the engine guys on the Illinois team the first year we did this (2011).

That year, we started with a more traditional exhaust layout. We ended up having a nightmare passing sound at...

Normally, I keep quiet about these matters, but perhaps the time has come to speak up.

And first off, let me just note that while I am American by nationality, I'm Indian by descent (my parents...

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The Incredible Machine. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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As far as I recall, Gamma Technologies (makers of GT Power) don't quite give their software out for free. Rather, they give you a one-seat, one-year license for a small nominal fee. Although not...

We faced a somewhat similar situation my final year with my team (and I think it's still ongoing now, but a current team member can fill in the blanks on that). Although we weren't issued any sort...

Saw your cars, but apparently y'all weren't there when I showed up. Display looked great though! Pretty cool that you guys get this opportunity to showcase your work here.

Scarab's F1 blog has a pretty good writeup on how it might work:

http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/

Just a baseline guide:

http://www.injectorrx.com/fpump.html

The method near the bottom of the page is very basic but should get you most of the way there. They do make sure to point out one...

Likewise from here, congratulations to every team that made it out there!

With respect to Illinois' performance in endurance, we weren't exactly able to extract the full potential of the car. We...

Both, I would presume. The location issue kind of makes sense. As for the car, I know we came to learn about our car being the university's property (both physically and intellectually) when we...

One thing we've found works really well on our F4i is a "trap-door" design. Basically, include an aluminum hinge in your main baffle that only goes one way so oil will flow towards the pickup, but...

Our handheld plasma cutter.

There's something about sparks and the destruction of metal that I like all too much for the well-being of our team.

Definitely second Drew on this one. We've always found that a "big brother" type approach works best. Although younger students may have to be relegated to more menial construction tasks, it's...

As far as I know, we haven't used a coating on the runners. I could be wrong on this though, I'll get a chance to confirm it in a few hours.

Also, I guess it would help to say that the material...

We've used SLA and SLS materials for our intake over the past three years or so and we've found that it works out pretty well, both in terms of structural strength and anti-corrosive properties.
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I am actually trying to validate simulations we've been doing in GT-Power and elsewhere. We've been simulating several differently-sized plenums because we completely changed our intake shape. I am...

I'm actually continuing the research of our engine guys from last year (I studied abroad while they did part of it and they forgot to leave good documentation), so even I'm a bit confused, but I'll...

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on pressure sensors for monitoring plenum pressure while running our engine on the dyno. We thought of using an automotive MAP...

@chuck...

Already looked into it. Playboy can sponsor a full spec Miata series but not us. Admin won't allow it.

Also won't allow for a room to be named after him.

We just got in too. Car 49, University of Illinois

Yeah, we could use that number too. I'm pinging the site and its constantly timing out

Are the models for the Yamaha R6 motors still flawed in terms of mounting points, etc.?

And if they are, does anyone know where else we might find R6 engine models?