Jeez Monash, time to pick up your game and get a rolling road
http://i.imgur.com/jN6XI.jpg
http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Type: Posts; User: MalcolmG
Jeez Monash, time to pick up your game and get a rolling road
http://i.imgur.com/jN6XI.jpg
http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
Geoff - it's excellent to see some positive change already http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif That scoring breakdown is a huge step up from previous years (most of my historic...
well...
I think I've figured it out, the solution is - don't release results! From now on 3 teams will be given placings in events and 10 teams will be given overall positions. No further...
This is just such a farce now. How can SAE-A place such an emphasis on the importance of the fuel economy event, making it worth 125 points, then a month after competition still not be able to get...
That makes sense, that would be an equivalent of around 1.8L of 98 RON (IIRC the factor used is 1.5?), which based on fuel scores in other wet enduros seems about right for a ~160kg single.
and the fuel scores still can't be right if they're using the equation from the rules (unless they're using a Vmax around 4L and RMIT used around 0.1L). Why can't they post actual raw fuel used...
Wow, that's an amazing completion percentage for endurance! I guess many teams will be waiting with baited breath for some confirmed scores now (looks like the top 3 are all safe though, at least no...
Cheers Geoff. It looks like the Vmin for fuel economy has been scored incorrectly, as rule D8.23b states:
"Vmin will be the smallest volume of fuel used by any team in either heat; provided that...
Unless I'm doing something wrong, it seems like for 2.6L to give you 68 points you need Vmin to be 0L. The formula I'm using is
125 * (Vmax - Vyour)/(Vmax - Vmin)
If Vmin was 1L UWA should've...
Something is definitely on the piss here, and it's not made easier by SAE-A's tendency to only post separate fuel and endurance scores for the top 3 from each event.
UWA endurance score = 298
UWA...
I'm quite intrigued by the results for fuel, no team scored anywhere near the max of 125 points? I know that UWA used around 2.6L for one enduro and Auckland used 3.05L for one, their scores were...
Results are up
http://www.saea.com.au/2011/12...e-a-event-coming-up/
All I've been able to make out so far is that Monash won (congratulations again guys!) and ECU were third. I'm guessing UWA and Auckland may have made up 2 of the remaining spots in the top 5, and...
Design finals:
Auckland
Monash
RMIT
Edith Cowan
More links with updates and photos
http://motorsport.mech.uwa.edu.../australia-2011.html
http://fsae.co.nz/index.php/ne...ainmenu-44/2011-news (come on guys, too much text, not enough...
I thought I'd start a new thread for competition-specific stuff, since the FSAE-A 2011 thread dates back to May and isn't competition-specific.
It's tough not being there for the first time in 6...
Thanks for the info, Tom. I think some of what you've said can be seen in the TTC data - when we went to Goodyears in 2009, we essentially did it based on the TTC data (which, IIRC, was from round 3...
I'm sure everyone would like to know http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
THOSE DAMN CLAMPS!!! One year I spent a day driving around Auckland trying to find some, gave up and then when we arrived for comp I spent another day driving around Melbourne until I finally found...
I'm really not buying this "teams should design the cars so they don't lift both wheels" stuff. It's not that I don't agree with it, but by the same argument you could say teams should design cars...
Remember that as soon as you lift a wheel off the ground, your CG height increases, the question is whether this increases at a rate faster or slower than the grip dropping off due to the positive...
I'm not convinced that spec tyre will make everybody's cars the same. Pick a common tyre (e.g. the 13" Goodyears or Hoosiers), and look at the range of different designs using that tyre. Every time a...
What university is this? Honestly I wouldn't even bother doing FSAE if you can't get rid of that advisor or can't just ignore him and do your own thing. Scratch that, I would find another university...
Just curious, do you have any pictures taken after welding the gears (before installing in gearbox)? and pictures of failure and damage caused?
Upto what temperatures did you guys pre-heat the...