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The FSAE Tire Test Consortium was started 20 years ago at the 2004 SAE Motorsports Conference and now has over 700 members worldwide. Thanks to the FSAE.com site operators for continuing to maintain...

Good news, I'll pass along to Dr. Kasprzak and also the Calspan team (I'll be there testing in a few weeks).

Separate issue -- do you know the owners of this forum? It would be helpful if they...

Hi Kevin.

Nice to see you here and thanks for the kind thoughts.

I agree that nothing seems to have replaced this forum, although for tires & tire modeling the forums on the TTC (secure) site...

Neat to see this old thread brought back, thanks! For anyone that hasn't seen it, the story at https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/how-turn-corvette-2000-sucker-car/ is worth a look.

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John, you are welcome and it's nice to see you here again. For anyone that reads this, follow this link to John's "intro" post to this forum:...

Welcome stranger. My foggy memory is that some old school (non-PC, etc) posters scared away all the students...who then migrated to Reddit/r/fsae and perhaps other sites. I won't name names, just...

SAE Detroit section has a few videos, start here: https://www.youtube.com/user/SAEDetroit
I'm sure there are others on YouTube, have fun searching!
Once you get serious, my choice would be books...

Hi Rex,

Thanks, a nice set of pics!
No problem viewing in Firefox -- double click on the name of the U to open each folder, then right click on any file and open in "Preview".

Lots of...

Rex,
Nice to see I'm not the only one posting here (sporadically).
Any chance you could post your pics on an open site? I'm not a FB user and don't intend to be...
-- Doug

Don't know if you are going to get many answers here...but maybe there are still some others using this forum?

My first thought would be to make the welding table just big enough for the frame...

The FSAE Tire Test Consortium now has 650 members worldwide. While this FSAE.com site is short on contributors these days, it is still full of useful information--thanks to the site operators for ...

An email went out earlier today to everyone registered on the TTC secure site: We have posted the Round 9 FSAE TTC data on www.fsaettc.org under "Tire Testing / TTC Round 9". Please let us know...

Hi Geoff,

Great to hear from you. Other than the ~0.5 meters of snow yesterday, things are fine here in Buffalo. Most of the students have moved to Reddit and there is also a relatively new page...

This post is to announce Round 9 testing:

Round 9 at Calspan is scheduled for the week of January 17-22, 2022. We plan on testing the following tires, subject to availability (shipping, supply...

Hi Geoff,

OK here near Buffalo/Niagara, at least so far...

Your memory is good, I'd forgotten Toyota Corona. Drove a well-used example in the 1980s, lots of body roll & pitch, iirc (but...

Geoff,

Great to hear from you.

When questions come in, I often send links to FSAE.com. If the local search function lets me down, I use Google site search. For example, Google Image search...

I'm interested in hearing any other comments about this event, from students and/or volunteers.

Here are some initial comments after WebEx judging with 10 teams over the last two days:

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As one of the last(?) posters here, I thought I'd open a topic to discuss the 2020 design event. For anyone that doesn't know, due to the virus, this year's event will be online. SAE and many...

Of possible interest to FSAE and Mini-Baja participants, I've been asked to announce several research positions being offered:
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That would be a job for the "wheel test consortium"!

As interesting as this test might be, we have enough trouble sourcing zero offset wheels for TTC testing as it is. With different offset...

Sorry to say, that SPMM was auctioned off last year and is being rebuilt for the new owners in Asia. Perhaps we'll see some K&C data from the updated rig...on a car from that side of the world?

The FSAE Tire Test Consortium now has 600 members worldwide. While this FSAE.com site is short on contributors these days, it is still full of useful information--thanks to the site operators for...

You may need to go back to the rig operator to really understand what was tested? Based on experience, I think I can guess, but that isn't good enough. K&C measurements depend on precise...

Thanks Bill, those are great slides. In my FSAE lecture I try to cover some of the same ground. After an overview of tire force and moment properties, applying the tire data to a vehicle model...

For anyone who doesn't go back a few years in FSAE/FS, here's one article where Pat defines "Motorsport Virus":
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