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I really get frustrated with the anti oval sentiment out there. I know it comes from misperceptions and, sorry for this, ignorance. I am the first to admit that I was ignorant at one time as well. ...

NC State finished endurance with pretty good average times. Should be a great finish this year considering they haven't finished worse than 20th in any dynamic events, (assuming top 20 in...

You're right Judd (vfr750r) nobody cares about you guys or if you are still in it. Just kidding. Bad luck sucks.

Looks like the weather should be much better for the endurance. Should be some...

Dave, Rinaz, etc.

Sorry if you were waiting on a paper that never came. Been busy with work blah, blah. Anyway, I haven't been to the site in a while and a friend told me to check out this post....

James,

Just sent you a copy of that paper. Any teams doing any wing research? Wollongong? UTA? that they would like to share. Any experiences or data from FSAE 05? I hope to have some CFD of...

I just wanted to add some stuff that we learned at NC State when I was there in grad school. As part of a masters I built a set of front and rear multi element wings to test at autocrosses and we...

Super light car. I am also a little surprised about how open the driver is and amazed if the chassis is stiff enough with that very small cross section.

One thing I will be keeping an eye on is...

We at NC State have run 10s and 13s on the same car. We have run 10s for the past few years until the team went to 13s this year. Over the summer of '03 we tested our 8th place finisher from 2003...

All good looking cars. I'm impressed by most everything at the competition these days, but you've got to agree, NC State raised the bar on having a pro looking car. Here's a good pic.
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Rob,

I wrote a paper on formula cars and wings. I wrote a very basic lap simulation to determine optimal downforce vs. drag for a fsae car and to use on other types racing cars. It may help you...

Mike,

Couple of choices here. First Aurora had made a special run of spherical bearings for those Fox shocks at one time. They were just the bearings you have with smaller outer races. Maybe...

Another quick and easy way to model the engine is to create an area element. I created nodes where the pick ups on the engine are and created a 4 sided area between these elements. I did this on all...

Frank,

I came across a paper on this subject for a NASCAR chassis. The paper is out of Clemson and shows how chassis stiffness changes roll stiffness.
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Big Daddy,

Been there done that. You have to allow for another day as the silicon dries, and if you let the tire ride up on the rim and seal off the air before the silicon is dry, it will never...

We have run 10s for a couple of years now with success, 8th place FSAE in 2003, and have found that you can get good performance with them. I have to disagree with PDR in that we were able to...

Sorry wingman for, I did forget about a very deserving Cal Poly win in the UK. I agree there should be a history presentation on all of the events.

Noah Mckay

I love reading all the interesting conversation over wings and their usefulness in FSAE. I've posted on this board some research that I have been doing on this exact subject. I wrote a simple lap...

Mike,

We do use a wheel stiffener but not nearly as trick or well designed as that on the WWU car. We just have used an aluminum plate. Although failures like this one are making us have a...

Dave, sorry for the confusion and my bad wording. I did mean to say what I said however. What I am saying is that 20% of the top 10 teams run 10 inch wheels and I believe (no real statistics on...

This is a topic that we at NC State have pondered in detail for some time now. Thanks dave_s for your complement. This year we were the highest ranking team with 10s at 8th place.

We have been...

"Who is Dyson Racing?...they racing Porsche's?"

Dyson Racing is a LMP 675 team running 2 MG Lola cars number 16 and 20. We will be working with Max Crawford from Crawford Race cars on the number...

Me and another team member from NC State Formula SAE will be working with Dyson Racing at Sebring, Mexico City, and Road Atlanta this season. If anybody is coming to those races you should come by...

Endplates offer an effective increase in aspect ratio, as do the gurney flaps on Joe's endplates. There are a few books out there that show how to calcuate the increase in aspect ratio with these...

I think all of this discussion on wings is great. Here at NC State we have been doing some research on wings although we are not going to be using them on the 2003 car.

I wrote and presented a...