I agree Pat. When teams have power to make decisions that affect the running of the sport it is the beginning of the end. Too many vested interests. Top level motorsport is about entertainment,...
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Type: Posts; User: Al
I agree Pat. When teams have power to make decisions that affect the running of the sport it is the beginning of the end. Too many vested interests. Top level motorsport is about entertainment,...
Sorry, I meant individual lap times not the overall. Unfortunately we come under the heading of too poorly prepared and didn't finish enduro so it is impossible to tell from the total times how we...
Halfast,
Agree with you totally on the lack of information front. We still have not seen any of the times from the endurance and we were competing in it! Best idea of how we were going came...
12-17 hour days?!?
Imagine how good your car would have been if you were working hard http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
Seriously, congratulations on the result. It is a...
Thanks Paul,
There are a few reasons:
- Weight and inertia (about 4kg saved)
- Temperature (England we expect to be cold and would thus find it difficult to heat the narrow fronts, let...
Hey Frank,
You guys are obviously still planning to fly the car to the UK correct?? Steve at RMIT just got an accurate quote on air freight and the cost was enormous because it they classified...
Can you post a picture if you have it??
Hi Paul,
If you believe your ideas will provide you with a measurable benefit then go for it. This competition is about learning and Im sure by following a different design path you will learn...
Thanks Vinh,
Much appreciated.
Ill second all of that. As we are travelling over in the same crate as RMIT it effects us too. Free beers are on offer to anyone who offers quality advice.
We probably will also purchase tyres...
For those interested there are now some videos of the Monash car during FSAE-A on our site at
http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~fsae/frameset.htm
click past cars, 2003 car
the videos are...
Just one short point backing up Ben and Kevin. Our car at Monash had an 'outrageous' 11 degrees of KPI because of packaging reasons. We won autocross by a long way from teams with zero KPI, even...
It looks to me like one of those design changes that other teams are going to look at and say, "why didn't we think of that"!
The quality of airflow over the front wing looks like it would be much...
Hey Frank,
- i wish i could remove that first post, but anyway my thinking was.
- Our cooling system was very marginal on the weekend for some reason, not so in 8 weeks of testing including at...
Thanks Denny
amcv2@student.monash.edu.au
I have a video (850k) of the "incident" for those interested in it. Send me an email and its yours with a small contribution to the "Monash ECU fund". Only kidding.
If I was website friendly I'd...
Sorry Pat,
I agree I should have kept it to myself, but my frustrations were at boiling point. I had just inspected the car and their appears to be no apparent area of leaking oil, the sump is...
It sucks!!
We were pulled in ourselves for a suspected coolant (and yes they thought we were cheating and running coolant) leak just prior to the our fateful oil fire (of which the time...
Hi Guys,
I heard from Rob Chadwick that there are two possible venues under discussion. Unfortunately one is the stinking, small, cramped piece of crap venue in Carrum that played host to the...
How about one pic, c'mon maybe a little teaser to scare all us aussie teams http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Im worried about us too BTW, too many bolts falling off!!
Hi Dave,
Monash are trying desperately to get registered, but it appears as though we were just too late. The SAE will not extend their 140 team limit, and they don't have a waitlist. ...
We only bring out the wings for promotional events, I mean look at all that extra signage space!!!
Seriously, that test was a pure reliability and basic handling test. In order to allow quick...
Monash Uni effectively gets no workshop assistance, apart from the occasional small job when in a bind (not supposed to receive this help but the workshop staff cant resist our cries for help and...
Couldn't agree with you more Geoff.
When it comes down to it, we are getting this tremendous experience of building a race car using other peoples money (generally). In most instances companies...