Queen's Formula Sae And New Digital Camera
04-16-2004, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by G2G' date='Apr 16 2004, 07:22 AM
You guys are using an ATV motor. Don't you think that might be a little too much torque. We've always had great succes with motorcycle motors.
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I'm not a supporter of the single cylinder, the decision to use a single was made last year. we put some bolt ons and stuff hoping to get more power. The effects of the large changes in pressure waves can be compensated by using a huge intake chamber/runner volume at the sacrafice of throttle response.
Next year they will move back to a 500 cc 4, or maybe some sort of V-twin.
04-16-2004, 10:39 AM
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electrical tape mount for the radiator? nice.
our car is getting just as ghetto every day. we'll have to clean up these little "tweaks" and "mods" before comeptiton.
looking good. did yall invest in a carbon fiber company before this year...
our car is getting just as ghetto every day. we'll have to clean up these little "tweaks" and "mods" before comeptiton.
looking good. did yall invest in a carbon fiber company before this year...
04-16-2004, 10:40 AM
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oh yeah, our car ended up costing around $18000. that's $3000 less than our car last year. and we weight 30 lbs less than last year. i'm happy about that.
today we are going to tune the suspension on a skidpad.
today we are going to tune the suspension on a skidpad.
04-16-2004, 01:51 PM
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are those aluminum MMC brake discs?
large crush zone. they dont exactly define what the crush zone has to be made from, we we made it out of 3/8" x 0.035 wall chromoly tubing. haha, it's light. we're going experiments to see how much "crash" energy they absorb.
large crush zone. they dont exactly define what the crush zone has to be made from, we we made it out of 3/8" x 0.035 wall chromoly tubing. haha, it's light. we're going experiments to see how much "crash" energy they absorb.
04-16-2004, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by RX7Aggie' date='Apr 16 2004, 10:39 AM
electrical tape mount for the radiator? nice.
our car is getting just as ghetto every day. we'll have to clean up these little "tweaks" and "mods" before comeptiton.
looking good. did yall invest in a carbon fiber company before this year...
our car is getting just as ghetto every day. we'll have to clean up these little "tweaks" and "mods" before comeptiton.
looking good. did yall invest in a carbon fiber company before this year...
04-16-2004, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by RX7Aggie' date='Apr 16 2004, 01:51 PM
are those aluminum MMC brake discs?
large crush zone. they dont exactly define what the crush zone has to be made from, we we made it out of 3/8" x 0.035 wall chromoly tubing. haha, it's light. we're going experiments to see how much "crash" energy they absorb.
large crush zone. they dont exactly define what the crush zone has to be made from, we we made it out of 3/8" x 0.035 wall chromoly tubing. haha, it's light. we're going experiments to see how much "crash" energy they absorb.
Yes they are MMC aluminum brake rotors, the trade name is Duralcan, we are sponsored heavily by alcan. Before they changed the rules for the rear roll bar being made out of the heavy *** mild steel our car was 315 lbs 7000 series aluminum.
