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"Formula SAE" is supposed to be providing a Twitter/Facebook feed of some sort. I'm not sure how updated that will be.

Z,

Keeping with the scope of the project we set about a year ago, which was essentially to not completely reinvent the entire car over the previous year and focus on optimizing components...more...

This thread has bounced around quite a bit!

Thank you for your input, "good" and "bad" [depending on who you ask] we appreciate seeing different views. Knit-picking through the thread, for us and...

Claude,

Financially, our team has scratched together everything we have, including personal dollars into this year's car [into the thousands combined]. It is what it is and we have given it our...

Claude,


We do not have depth measurements from when the tires were new, nor do we have a means to log vehicle mileage easily. However, we will be taking measurements and logging more appropriate...

Sorry for the delay in response.

We honestly didn't know what to expect out of the tires, we are glad to have the testing time to be able to run through a set before our second competition. We...

We bought a new set of Hoosiers back in January, started driving our car late April and it currently has around 15 hours of run/drive time on the car.

The wear holes have plenty of life in them...

First drive is out of the way, bring on tuning season!

We're wrapping up the build portion of our University's second FSAE car, Lincoln bound. After several part/sponsor set backs we're finally up to driving the car next week!

Weighing in just a hair...

The tables are setup as TPS vs RPM for fuel and ignition. I have included snap-shots of what it is currently running on, since that is what was requested earlier.
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Thank you for the input.


As far as the wideband goes, we are using Performance Electronics Wideband Conditioner and their Bosch sensor after our 4-2-1 collector. However, I do not have a means...

Hi all,


I am with the University of North Texas, the second car for the University is just shy of completing manufacturing and beginning testing season [Lincoln bound]. We have started to work...

Thank you for the post[s], they've been helpful for me as well. We'll be starting to tune our F4i here very soon, while we have a stock bike base tune [that it runs on], with it being restricted and...

Hi all, I have successfully talked to and started/ran our 2014 Lincoln car off a native Windows 7 laptop. Unfortunately it's old, the battery doesn't last long and it's very bulky. My smaller and...

Thanks for the input. Here is a reasonable size pic

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We have our F4i apart and it has some pretty decent cylinder scoring. I cannot find a definite answer on if the F4i is Nikasil coated or how to determine if a wall is coated or not. We'd like to find...

I am with the University of North Texas, as a second year team, we haven't been able to invest in Tire Data and are trying to consider the advantages and disadvantages of different tire and wheel...

Hey now, I'm not "from" Texas, I just live here!

Thank you very much for all of the replies, the GM plant in Arlington is something I completely overlooked; likely because they're seconds away...

As you may recall, we are a very young team [2nd year] at UNT. We have contacted the major automotive manufactures that we have seen on dozens of cars [and beyond that], GM, Ford, Toyota, Honda with...

We ran this year as student members and not considered a "Collegiate Chapter" as a first year team.

How advanced is your timing? That can cause hard cranking as well/starter kick-back.

I believe as long as you ran all four carbs to a single 20mm restrictor/19mm-E85, you're good to go. As mentioned, it's not ideal, but if you can get it to run happy and it's what your resources...

Thanks for your input, 8-10 people is quite a bit for just chassis work for our small team. The way we've looked at it is, chassis was a long project for our car, talking with CRD it's supposed to be...

Thank you for the responses!

I will go more in-depth on many of the questions or concerns that came up a litle later, but quickly:

Lack of testing time was primarily a 1st year problem, we had...

I’ve read through dozens of threads on this forum and I am just curious to hear some opinions and comments from those that have been through a team’s early days. It seems the amount of experience...