When dealing with an oil pan fire make sure you don't try to put it out with water, that will only cause an explosion. It's best to smother the pan with a damp tea-towel.
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When dealing with an oil pan fire make sure you don't try to put it out with water, that will only cause an explosion. It's best to smother the pan with a damp tea-towel.
We made a reduced...
What do you actually mean?
Why do you want it? At the event, car to pit telemetry serves little to no purpose. You can't bring the car in or signal the driver easily, so what do you gain?
If you want to preserve the car,...
Z,
As much as I love the idea of a simple go-kart type FSAE car, I look at the sketches and ideas in this thread and wonder where the simplicity is!
Teams aren't just using wishbones and...
We learnt the hard way this year at FSG that the design event is about knowledge, not the car when we scored 0 for a suspension system that the judge admitted was one of the best there, but it just...
Will, we were using the seats as inserts in our monocoque, with a different one for each driver.
Look into some of the expanding seat foam or bead kits available online. That's how seats and seat inserts are made in most types of Motorsport, even up to the highest levels. We've used foam seats...
You think you're late?! I've just put mine on Facebook, I've got higher res versions if people want them.
FSG 2011 Pictures
Doesn't compare with some of the amazing ones posted up here, but one of the younger members of the Brunel Racing team put this together and I think it's pretty good.
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I'd say somewhere between the two is more realistic. There probably aren't many FSAE cars making ~200kg of downforce, given how few run wings.
Besides, he was making a point that needs to be made....
We had a budget of €20k for the car, testing, tools, equipment etc. The rest of the 'worth' is from sponsorship, and is probably overestimated.
Speaking with (quite a major) American team at FSG,...
I know this is a very touchy subject with a lot of teams, but I've been wondering how much people think their car is actually worth. We all hear talk of certain European teams with cars worth €300k+...
I know this is a very touchy subject with a lot of teams, but I've been wondering how much people think their car is actually worth. We all hear talk of certain European teams with cars worth €300k+...
Yes, just had to find a picture of Hockenheim on Google.
I also gave up on doing the livery in Solidworks, as it was such a PITA. For the livery renders I just used Photoshop.
http://i.imgur.com/sX3bF.jpg
Our car was at Hockenheim a few months early last year...
We used 'supersonic' wishbones for the past few years, and had no problems with rear stability.
In fact Pat, you put your 'seal of approval' on our sticker at FSUK this year. One of the design...
Tobias, what would you say the percentage of people using PDUs instead of relays/fuses/circuit breakers was, and of those how many are designing their own systems?
I always wondered how many...
That's pretty interesting. What made you go with that solution? Is there any sort of customisation built into it?
In professional motorsport, most teams use solid-state power distribution boxes to control high-current devices (fans, motors, pumps etc).
Making the loom for the FSAE car last year and using...
In professional motorsport, most teams use solid-state power distribution boxes to control high-current devices (fans, motors, pumps etc).
Making the loom for the FSAE car last year and using...
You had me worried that dpcars had somehow got involved with Formula Pacific. Phew.
The DP4 is an awesome looking car, and I would absolutely love to drive one. Though there sometimes appears to...
The ECU monitor is showing a lost sync, with the crank sensor dropping out (I haven't seen this with my own eyes, it's what the engine manager has reported)
The gap is currently 0.4mm, with the...
Running the engine up at high rpm with the computer connected we've seen that the engine is losing sync.
We've had to increase the number of teeth on our trigger wheel for the Bosch ECU, so it...
The service manual for the bike lists a CDI ignition system