What's up with the Endurance results?

[DJHache]

Yeah, we haven't finished endurance for the last 3 years. It's always a design failure. Two of those three years the car drove only four hours before the actual competition. The result is a car that dies in the "infant mortality" mode thus pointing to an obvious design failure.

FSAE cars are light and the engine runs restricted so all the components you can buy are overkill for our applications.Barring any misuse of OEM parts, it's the parts you design that will fail.

[Moke]

We were a first year team last year in Oz and we made it a goal to finish both endro events and we did picking up 5th in endro.

We feel that our early testing was the key. the most extreme testing was when we ran the car for about 5 hours soild, stopping for fuel and drivers. We found a few problems after a few hours and fixed them that night.

If you have to over engineer something to make it reliable it might be worth while. A light car that doesn't finish isn't worth much.

DNF=0

[Racingchef]

Hi Erin,

don't expect too much in your first years!

1. "Just" get your car ready and running! (That's the hardest point)
2. Then take part at a competition!
3. Go through tech inspection, brake test, noise test and tilt table!

Then you've got my respect - excellent work!
The rest is "On Top"!

Herbie
Alumni
University of Stralsund