Well as most of you have herd by now, Swinburne will NOT be entering this year with a petrol car.
The long and short of it is they do not want to listen to students and want to focus on the electric car as they have reached a "peak" (their words not ours) with the petrol car. Which so far has turned out to be a fantastic choice (insert sarcasm).
However, the good news is that the petrol car will be heading to the Japan FSAE event. We were able to source funding (not by the uni, they paid only the $900 event entrance fee), so it will be all hands on deck soon in order to check/prep/test the car.
The plan is to leave the car mostly the same (No E85 at japan ) but to run on goodyears.
On top of this, I am planning on having the car at the car swap this year running on E85, just for the shear sh*t's and giggles of it.
Outside of that, if anyone has any questions about engine tunning, what we did, or wants some help (or even a tuner - Please I'm bored), then drop me a line and I will do what I can.
Best of luck to you guys this year. I am very envious.
[EDIT]
For those wondering why we chose Japan, there was talk of heading to the US before our cancellation news came down. While we were busy trying to same the team (not heading over sea’s was one of the compromises to continue), we missed the entrance for FS-UK and for Formula student. And as it turned out, only the top team got an invite to the US comps (we thought top two)