Search:

Surprised nobody of my era has brought up the great mystery that was the malfunctioning fuel bump/caps lock/spell checker.
...

I don't disagree, my thinking is more along the lines of nudging teams in the direction of doing so. I could have worded it better.

Throwing a wrench in the works for some events as you mention...

I agree that a reverse grid kills some (okay, a lot,) of the fun in watching endurance, but seems like a better compromise to me than design finals before the race. Really I'd like to see an extra...

1.) Endurance starts with the fastest cars and works backwards. As they finish, design finalists are re-evaluated. If for some reason a finalist wasn't able to run auto-cross, use an educated guess...

Stiffer and stronger in which direction? (That's a rhetorical question for the budding race car engineer to answer for themselves.)

Also once again, I think you'd find the vast majority of cars...

First off, I'm incredibly jealous of anyone who it getting to do even a single lap of that course. Excellent work. If only we could find somewhere other than MIS...

Secondly - if it hasn't been...

You forgot the best of them all - a small spot weld or two on each rotor!



Seriously though kids, don't try that.

Unless it's baja.

The rumor mill started swirling about a month ago that we might see some much improved coverage next year. (This is actually what brought me back to the forum recently.) Keep the pressure on and let...

Also since I am paying more attention now - in regards to the initial topic discussed, while I haven't been able to spend as much time "spying" as I used to , to my knowledge nobody that raced at Le...

My apologies, I'm an engineer not a writer damn-it!

In my many re-writings of the angry jumbled thoughts in my head when I see something like that I removed my own question of where are the REIB...

First off, where are the REIB in your photo? This has always been a concern of mine since since the design judges have drilled the "NO REIB" into young students minds without a proper explanation of...

Should be - but history shows us different. How often does design for manufacturing come up in design?

IMO, design should go something like this:
1. This is how we decided our requirements for a...

The design event also does not take into consideration cost - real or team. Those two being the actual cost to make a part per the cost report and what a team pays for it after sponsorship etc...
...

It amazes me how much further advanced Baja is than even the European competitions as far as coverage. Nearly live coverage of all events, up to and including tech. Not to mention the fantastic...

This thread is a great example of how far down the rabbit hole most teams have gone under the belief - one reinforced by the design judges - that they are building a mini-F1 car, rather than learning...

This just jogged my memory and brought up an interesting and perhaps very relevant concept. I don't remember the exact wording or points structure, but the year the templates were first used (2009...

It seems to me that every year the rules come out a week later than last, and that has added up considerably to our current position.

I agree that there should be a more set-in-stone date for the...

Thank you Rex, you saved me a lot of time. :)

I'll be honest I haven't read the 2015 rules, but is there not still an 8" wheel minimum requirement?

First off, let me say that for all the students out there who want to pretend that FSAE is real motorsports, you better learn real quick to put stickers on your car if someone gives you a good reason...

Julian - I have had the exact same experience with the RC here in the good ole USA.

At one point our team was actually working with our advisory (he had been on the RC in the 90's and still held...

There was not only a single but now multiple people who thought that changing your car set-up during competition was illegal?

My mind has officially been blown for the day.

I foresee bigger problems in your future...

Bonding carbon is no different than bonding metals. Try researching that.

I recommend the World Wide Web. If you're already discovered things like loctite 9430 you've done some work, now just...

Duplicate post - moved.