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I havent heard anything new about the tire testing consortium in quite some time. I was looking at the budget and noticed there was $9500 in the account and I was curious if there were any plans to...

I havent heard anything new about the tire testing consortium in quite some time. I was looking at the budget and noticed there was $9500 in the account and I was curious if there were any plans to...

FSAE West was during our finals this year. it was great.

im pretty sure switching dates would benefit just as many people as it screws up... At this point we (UCSD) are planning on attending FWest only, which means if it were in May we wouldnt be...

in case anyone didnt follow the 8 degree of inclination thing.... this is the inclination of the head to the shoulders, not of the back. in other words you can recline the driver as much as you want,...

I think that obtaining a reliable structural weld with steel (even moreso with mild steels)is much, much easier than with aluminum. We've had welded 4130 a-arms for three years and never had a...

As others said, running four carbs with the restrictor would be nearly impossible (it would require all 4 barrels to converge on one restrictor, and then split off again to the 4 intake ports. If I...

just out of curiosity, how much do one of those motors weigh?

one thing I was wondering how you get around is longitudinal weight transfer. In order to know how much tractive force is available you have to know how much weight is in the rear tires, and to know...

the resolution line method doesnt really make sense to me. the inside tire is creating a force vector that is pointing inside the turn (IE the force line between the IC and the tire patch is in...

From an old fashioned theoretical standpoint, which assumes that the geometric roll center is in fact the point that the car is rotating around, then the decreased jacking force would be explained by...

hi billy

does anyone have any dimensioned drawings or cad models of a single cylinder engine such as a honda or yamaha 450? It doesnt need to be anything fancy, just a basic layout/overall dimensions etc......

we went through the whole competition on a set of Avon A45's... and a whole lot more after competition from the same set.

hah... now that i think about it... i think someone chased down a beer sponsorship for our team a couple years ago. it was bud or coors or something and they graciously gave us 1 case of beer, and it...

i doubt this is the problem but dont forget... use dc electrode negative for steel, ac for aluminum

i bet you could run a fsae car on bacardi 151...

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personally i'm amazed (and to be honest disappointed) that so many teams just seem to be perfectly fine with outsourcing their entire chassis... going back to the rules and the "intent" of the...

that would be cool except you'd have to build some sort of bridge or overpass... unless you just wanted to have the courses cross at some point and have a flagman making sure nobody collides

wow... looks like we're the only non-european team

Assuming an average sized competitive car (450lbs or less)... at what point does the extra weight added required to stiffen the chassis further become cause a larger disadvantage than having a less...

Very interesting posts from everyone. Big bird brought up a very good point about the differences between time trials and wheel-to-wheel racing... but i think you're missing one of the most important...

the other thing you have to realize is that back in the day, the factory horsepower specs were inflated by over 30% in some cases...

its easy to make a lot of horsepower from a small block if you...

part of our inspiration for flipping the head on our car came from the '67 Ferrari F1 car... it had a v-12 with the exhaust coming out the valley and the intake from the sides... anyways at some...

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i think the low end torque/drivability were due more to the sheer size of the engines than any of their other characteristics.... an advantage a .6 liter fsae motor clearly doesnt have.
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