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I agree... you don't take on such a project if you're just barely getting a car out the door without enough testing and development.

That said, at the end of the day FSAE is an engineering...

Oh, throttle response is a different beast... I'm talking about the time it takes to go from 7,000 to 10,000 rpm with the engine loaded down on a typical endurance track drive cycle, and then...

What response time would you consider acceptable?

Without optimizing the servo motor, I had less than 1 second full range with a lightweight, cable based runner assembly (see SAE Paper...

I haven't used ANSYS, but it may require specific version of the .SAT ACIS file. The setting for this is available in the save dialog under the "Options..." button.

Yes, I agree with Mr. Wesley. How do you obtain this "Handout" you speak of? Is it worth many competition points? Will it make my car lighter?

I think these are appropriate for this discussion...

Specimen A:
http://notcooperedu.org/~vaugha/a.jpg

Specimen B:
http://notcooperedu.org/~vaugha/b.jpg

We set the latter as a desktop...

As a complicated (but non-FSAE) example of what can be done with the SolidWorks to Fluent approach, here is an oxygen uptake study I did a few months ago for a professor growing bone cells on a...

I will say that this is exactly what my CFD professor drove home my first day of class: The acceptable tolerances for CAD are much lower than those for CFD.

BUT:

I've had very good luck going...

+1 I have yet to find anything I really enjoy as much as FSAE....

Yes, thanks for these videos!

Reading the forums at odd hours of the morning as if it's my duty to god and country.

+1 4cyl car with 13in rims less than 400lbs, my personal favorite (TUG)

We've been using the MicroSquirt for our GSXR600 with some pretty good success over the past year. The tuning software is quite a bit better than PE's, and the CAN functionality is pretty powerful...

Thanks Jeroen!

Mrmustangman357, this should be the correct format for our side of the pond, unless it was in metric degrees...

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My life is now complete. Thank you Baja Radio!

As a proud parent, here's how they came out:
http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu213/adamv61243/FSAE%202009/Fabrication%202009/exhaust.jpg?t=1255852393

And this is after sprinkling "Precision...

For our 2009 4-1 headers, we used GR2, 1.25" OD, 0.035" wall seamless titanium tubing.

I know this topic is about wall thickness, but I thought I'd also share some of my own experience to help you...

Spinning out just after the finish line, and having no one believe that it was actually unintentional...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jal3sukCQjQ

We have a new building with a facade to kill on first sight... it features a brand new basement shop that's smaller, lighter, and more nimble to out maneuver our competitors... and with its stealthy...

"Hey sweetie" (official greeting)

"So how's your sister doing?" (alternate official greeting)

"Just use the problem solver" (hammer)

"Straight enough" (team slogan)

"I just a need a...

SolidWorks works well when it works...

... and when it doesn't, it at least keeps things interesting by conjuring up a unique crash message every day.

It's obviously a yes or no question. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Mr. Riley,

I hope my summary of our electronics system sufficiently captured everything needed to develop a cost model. Let me know if you need anything else for it.

I just tried to download...

Bill,

I had submitted this question to Kathleen McDonald at the beginning of this month, and apparently it's caught in limbo waiting on a response from the rules committee... That said, I was...

I sized ours using the e-NTU method with our Q approximated to ~30% of the total fuel energy under an assumed 1/3rd duty cycle (that had been discussed in the radiator thread). I also looked at...