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Originally posted by Fyhr:
Does anyone know if Chalmers got a running engine, i saw one pic of em but did they fix their engine?

Yup, 66.5 in sales, 12th out of 58 teams. 50 in cost, 70 points in design and their best acceleration so far is 3.925 seconds.

Just getting sporatic reports from the '07 project supervisor who is out there with them and expecting a full report this evening/tomorrow morning via email, so will update.

JR

Chalmers got their engine running and had a blazing fast car.
They had FTD for a while in accel.

Michigan State ended up with the fastest time of day for the acceleration event (3.8xx seconds).
I'll try to post pictures of the score sheets.

The announcement van at autocross said:
1. Texas A&M
2. Oklahoma
3. ?
4. U of Washington
(That's from the van and from memory = very unofficial)

I heard Design Final Teams were:
BYU, Auburn, can't remember the other 3(?)

I have a ton of pictures - might not be able to post them for a day or two...

I hear Michigan state is in design finals, won accel and autocross, unofficial of course

Design Finals:

Auburn
Oklahoma
BYU
Michigan State

Michigan won accel
Texas A&M won AutoX

I'm unsure about skid pad (except that Oklahoma got 3rd)

Here's some of my pictures here, not the best ones I took, but the ones that have something cool going on (tirelift!!!) The accel and skidpad results are also in there.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v237/Flexicoker/FSAE%20West%202007/

Does anyone feel like filming enduro and sticking it on youtube?

Here's my shots from today. Sorry they suck, I wasn't in the picture taking zone today. Most of the shots are out of focus or have vignetting from me not zooming in tight enough through the teleconverter. Tomorrow's should be better.

http://evilengineering.com/gallery/v/SAE/FSAE/WEST07/

Here's a 7MB pano group shot from the banking. Its 7 shots stitched together.

http://evilengineering.com/pano.jpg

What is going on under the front of Kansas’s car? Looks like some rowdy hydraulics?

I cant find a couple teams in the Pano, were some teams not there?

Kansas has their ride and roll springing and damping separate = 'monoshock' front suspension.

I'm not 100% sure but I think the rotary damper for roll was an in-house piece.

Just got back from the endurance race today and thought I'd share a few of my pics.

As far as the current standings go, my fellow Aggies (Texas A&M) were pretty sure they won after they finished. I didn't stay long enough to hear an announcement or see a posting though.

Results DAMNIT!

I just got home. The Oklahoma car (I think) threw a rod. Unfortunately because I was working the course I didn't have my camera ready, but had a front row seat. Anyhow, they threw a rod and boom, Huge flames out of the engine area as the crankcase oil lit off. If anyone has a picture it's sure to be a keeper. Driver's safe, but it was a real shame. A very fast car driven by a very fast driver.

I'll post pictures on my website tonight after I write it up. Oh, and sold some books while I was there

Great shots AeroAg03. I was suffering from camera envy all weekend. I think I'll have to upgrade to a DSLR for next year. Those shots just make my jaw drop.

I had to split from the pano shot early to go help setup the cones for enduro, so there could've been more teams that showed up after I took it. Thats also why nobody is looking at the camera or anything.

Here are my pictures from today (521) start on page 3...

http://evilengineering.com/gallery/v/SAE/FSAE/WEST07/?g2_page=3

I'll come back with some shrunken highlights, and post a .zip file of all the shots in the next day or two. Congrats to everyone, there were some amazing cars there this year. I was very impressed with BYU's car, some really trick stuff on there.

Well, we didn't finish endurance...we were running great and passing a bunch of people when two laps from the end our right front brake locked up and the car spun off the course. Right about then our shifter cable broke and that really sealed our fate.

Inspection of the brake rotor once we were allowed to get to the car revealed a small chunk of aluminium had melted off either the rotor or the caliper and wedged itself between rotor and caliper, locking the wheel.

On the plus side though, we did get some pretty cool footage from our onboard camera in endurance and autocross. When I edit the videos I'll be sure to put links here...

Azim Yazdani
Wichita State University.

Here’s the notes I took during enduro with some help and inspiration from Waltman:

Our extra perceptual premonitions are in bold

A&M passes UW
A&M on Oklahoma
Mich gaining
Mich spins
Oklahoma passes A&M
Mich passes Shiba-Ura
CSUN on track
UIUC on track
OK on track, 2nd driver
A&M on track, 2nd driver
OK making clunking noises
A&M passes South Dakota
Oklahoma massive fire & spin, DEAD CAR
Red flag
Parade lap & break whilst removing Oklahoma shrapnel
Bring all cars in
SD back on track
UIUC on track
SD driver change
CSUN on track
A&M on track
Mich on track
Mich spin, stall
A&M drifting behind UIUC around sweeper, passes UIUC
A&M makes large gap quickly
Mich pulled over/black flag?
Mich big spin into grass
KU on track
A&M hits cone, big drift
UIUC 2nd driver out on track
Mich black flagged
A&M finishes
Mich back on track
SD bogging, low on fuel? Off pace
Shiba-Ura finishes
RPI on track
SD off pace bogging for 2 laps
UW out- lost coolant after parade lap
The Ohio State University on track
RPI looks fast
SD out/finished?
KU lifting inside rear in sweeper
RPI transmission problems
KU passes UIUC
The Ohio State University off course
RPI black flagged
UIUC boots cone
KU driver switch
UMR winged beast lurks on deck
RPI back out
RPI in dirt, hits cone. RPI = RIP, push of shame
The Ohio State University only car on course (that’s alive), misses shift
The Ohio State University solo for awhile
The Ohio State University finishes, break to collect corpses (RPI, Oklahoma)
Repairs to timing line
Long break
Purdue on track
UMR on track
The Ohio State University back out
Maryland on track
KU on track
Purdue catches/passes Tokyo Denki U
The Ohio State University spins, into grass
KU stopped b/c The Ohio State University spin
UMR stopped on track
KU catches, passes The Ohio State University
TDU stopped at UMR speed bump
Maryland has shifter problems
UMR dead, body pulled from battlefield
Cal Poly Pomona on track
TDU held in passing lane for Maryland, KU, The Ohio State University
Matt coughs up chunk of LA air
KU catches, passes Maryland
CPP fast shifts, sounds like Italian enginery
CPP big spin
Chalmers out on track
Toledo on track
The Stig makes appearance in Purdue car
CPP black flagged, then back out
Chalmers carries inside rear all the way around sweeper
Toledo closing in on Chalmers
Maryland off pace
Maryland way off pace, holds up The Stig
The Stig passes, opens up 42 mile lead in one lap
Toledo screwed- Chalmers passes Maryland, Toledo stuck behind Maryland
Chalmers broken, holds up Toledo
The Stig hits cone
Purdue passes Maryland with 100 mph speed difference
CPP on track, 2nd driver
Purdue passes TDU- The Stig isn’t joking around
Kum Oh on track
CPP passes Maryland
2nd CPP driver not as smooth
Auburn on track
Auburn does not show southern hospitality to Maryland- passes them
Auburn passes Kum Oh
Kum Oh blasts two cones
Dartmouth on track
U de Sherbrooke (UDS) on track
TDU & Purdue finish
Toledo passes CPP
Kum Oh MIA
Auburn hits cone in slalom
CPP finishes
Toledo passes Dartmouth
Kum Oh returns
Western Ontario on track
Toledo opens big gap on Dartmouth
Auburn in for driver change
UDS off pace
Brazilian V8 team on track
WO making clunking noises, sounds like diff
Auburn back out
UDS brake overtravel switch kills engine, dead car
Dartmouth in for driver change
WO attrition victim
BYU on track
UOIT on track
Clemson on track
Carnegie Mellon (CM) on track
Clemson held in passing lane for CM and BYU
Auburn passes Kum Oh
BYU stalls out, facing wrong way, staring match with CM
Lehigh passes UOIT
BYU DNF
CM missing upshifts
UNIP out on track, super quiet
Clemson carries drift around fast kink
Lehigh’s muff broken, redneck high dB levels
CM stuck in 1st gear maybe
Lehigh passes UOIT
Leeds on track
CM in or dead
Clemson in
Lehigh passes UNIP
Lehigh pulled in, black flagged for noise?
Clemson back out, 2nd driver
Leeds passes UOIT
UOIT passes Leeds
Leeds passes UOIT
Leeds opens up gap
UOIT drags cone
Saskatchewan on track
UC Irvine on track
Clemson held up by UCI
Clemson and UOIT pass UCI
UOIT spins in slalom
UCI stops on course
Cal Berkley on track
UNIP passed by UOIT
UCI hits cone
Saskatchewan breaks front suspension in bus stop, dead car
Berkley sidepod ready for liftoff
UOIT finishes
CSUS on track
Firenze on track
UCI passes UNIP
CSUS passes Wash State
BYU carcass dragged off course
Montana on track
The Reaper goes to collect UMR body & soul
CSUS passes Wash state
Wichita State on track
Firenze makes lots of smoke or dust
UMR helmet-less driver limps car across live track
CSUS major tire lift around kink
CSUS in
Montana continues to hold up Wichita and Wash state, passed
Montana passes Wash State
Wash State passes Montana
Wichita opens gap on Wash State and Montana
Wash State in
CSUS back out, second driver
Montana coolant overflow is steaming
Montana stuck in low gear
UCI passes Wash State
Wash State in
Wichita in for driver change
UCI passes Wash State
UBC passed by UBC (what? It must have been getting hot )
UBC passes UCI
Firenze passes Wash State
Firenze has oil spilling out, lots of smoke, black flag
TTU on track (Tenn. Tech)
Alberta on track
U Alabama Birmingham on track
Saskatchewan body drug off course
Dalhousie starts & finishes enduro
Rumor: A&M engine in sad shape after enduro

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Thanks for the recap, sucks to see RPI had a DNF in enduro, they were on their way to another strong finish.

Here's my write up: http://www.kimini.com/Diaries/2007April-/

Our engine is fine, the Aprilia engine is good actually.

edit: Time for Dave and Busters'

I took a ton of pictures again today. I'll try to get them up soon.

Overall results:
1. Texas A&M
2. Kansas
3. Auburn
4. Purdue
5 .Toledo
6. SDSM&T
7. Cal St Northridge
8.UIUC
9. Chibura Inst Tech
10. Mich St