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Mike
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1000's of students have their ideas criticized in every imaginable - when will it be ok to ask the organizers of this event why we continue to have this even at a location and time of year with such...

I think 3rd in 2010, second in 2011, fourth overall both years.

I will be flying into DTW wednesday morning. Looking forward to seeing everyone again.

I agree with most of your points. Universities can learn a lot about thier car by putting a quality driver in it. However, even though SCCA is amature, there are a lot of quality drivers who have...

I don't understand this. If you look at the top 10 cars from each competition, they are all pretty well engineered. If you look at GFR, they not only win design but dominate the whole competition. ...

A few more points. [You can tell it is getting close to competition because I'm getting all pumped...]

Despite our absurdly high aero loads, I've never really had trouble steering our cars on...

Interesting topic.

I remember the steering on our older cars to be really light. Maybe it was because I sucked at driving. It might be because of the 13" tires.

However, between switching...

Wouldn't it be funny if you just switched the G brand with the H brand and your car went faster right out of the box. hmmm

I thought it was strange when I emailed Brian the other day and the email bounced.....Oh well...Hoosier won.

Z,

Nice overview. Have you ever driven a shifter kart? At least on the ones I have driven, statically the caster causes quite a bit of aligning torque. Granted, they have lots of caster and...

Are there any more pictures from this photo shoot?

I'll probably be there if I can get the TR11 working again. Really needs a new f4i...

Like he mentioned, in a hairpin the inside might need to be steered 45deg and the outside 30deg. With parallel steer, they get steered the same. If the outside tire has 6 deg of slip, then the...

Really Z,.....
Even if the heavier loaded outside tire desired more slip angle than the lower loaded inside tire, it does not mean the tires would be toe-in when steered. I consider 100% ackerman...

Great event...Hats off to the SAE.

I really liked the event location, seemed like there was a lot more stuff around the area then Fontana. The actual paddock was nice and the pushes weren't...

Anyone here yet?
I'm flying in tomorrow morning. Looking forward to some concrete, warm weather, and a real practice track.

us old guys have no faith. The racecar gods have smite us to much.

Well we could both find a really big hill and push our cars down that....

Or maybe just a god damn cliff.

patience, grasshopper

Try using pancake load cells on the mounts at the uprights. Really, all the other methods here aren't that great. I wouldn't really trust wind tunnels either, unless they were really big.

How is your diffuser suspended? Does it secure straight to your hubs or go through your pushrods? In the past we have strain gaged our pushrods to measure downforce.

Scotty is the man. There is nothing more to it. He has helped us with the most frustrating problems over the last several years.

I pretty much agree with Scott and Kevin entirely. Not much to argue about.

The Downforce advantage of a single cylinder outweighs the power advantage of the a 4cylinder car. It will be...

Maryland Machine never breaks
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The main downsides I can see to having only the front wing mounted to the monocoque are:

1) At high speed the car will nose dive, so that when you hit the brakes you will definitely slap the wing...