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FSAE CAR UPDATE
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 14:21

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The car is coming together nicely, so far we are only about a week behind schedule. Due to minor suspension geometry and wheel modifications we had to rethink certain aspects of the car. All situations have been resolved and we are back on track in the fabrication process.

The rear suspension is coming to a close. We have designed and fabricated the rear monoshock suspension and that should be done by the end of the week. The engine is running with the turbo and the wiring has been completed. Everything has been test fit in the frame and we are prepping it for paint.

The two things we lack to be able to drive it are front suspension and steering. While waiting for the CNC shop to finish out front uprights we used the schools rapid prototype machine to make plastic uprights in the mean time so that we can go ahead and fabricate the front suspension and steering so that when we get the aluminum ones all we have to do is bolt them up. The car should be ready to drive in about two weeks if all our parts come in.







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Intake
Sunday, 18 October 2009 11:27

In the shop this week Spencer was hard at work machining the intake out of Aluminum. The restrictor will be 19mm with the plan being to run Ethanol this year. We are still in need of a throttle body and a trigger wheel to begin converting the engine to fuel injection.

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New Engine
Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:28

We have procured a new powerplant for the EMS10 car. Rather than go down the same road as last year with a Gixxer 600, we went with a KTM 525 ATV engine. This engine only weighs around 50 to 60 pounds, which is about 100 lbs lighter than the Gixxer engine used last year.

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