nice job on the commentary.

where was david hobbs?
"KAAABLAMOO!!!"

Ok, here's some highlight shots. These are twice downsized and compressed, the full res shots have a lot more pop. Click the 1024x768 link in the gallery single shot pages to see a slightly better version. Or email me and I can send you full res (2592x1944). gielamonster -*-AT-*- gmail -*-DOT-*- com

Lined up for enduro...


It was pretty warm, even at 9am. No where near as sweltering as last year though...


OU driver escapes the flames (shame, you guys were super quick both here and at East. Congrats on an excellent car guys.)...



All these cars were wicked quick...




It did keep getting warmer...


The Stig driving for Purdue...


KU repeated their impressive performance from east...


Chalmers broke the mold with a twin-screw supercharger and water-air IC...


I had a lot of trouble catching Pomona in my frame...


Auburn set the pace when they were on the course...


Dartmouth had their turbo neatly packaged behind the driver's back, very clean system...


Sherbrook kept the engine spinning near redline the whole enduro thanks to the CVT. The engine held but the brakes gave up...



Kumho was another car that was hard to catch in the frame...


Spaceman driver award goes to my alma matter...


(staring match with BYU)

Ok, I'm done. Click through the gallery for more.

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

We were able to help Chalmers on Tuesday night. They took an extra crankshaft we had and rebuilt the engine in our lab.

Sorry to hear what happened with Oklahoma. They were damn fast out on the track for the first heat. (At least it wasnt the hub!)

This was a great competition for us this year. We bounced from 23rd last year to 7th this year.

did anyone get a shot of CSUN's spin?

oh and i can't wait to see "it's all about pablo and rachel" on oklahoma's car next year!!

"It's all about Pablo and rachel" will differently be on the car next year.. actually we are thinking of giving you guys a set of something that we won in autocross..you know, if you want them?

seriously though with out you guys at csun we wouldn't have even made it to skid pad.. we owe all our dynamic points to you guys.. thank you

We from Chalmers would like to thank CSUN FSAE for their hospitality. Without you guys we would never have been able to start our engine.

As many peolpe know we discovered that our crankshaft was bended (caused by a broken clutch) on the friday before the comp. Our faculty advisors managed to bring a straight shaft with matching bearings from sweden on the tuesday before comp. The car was assemled on wednesday morning, thanks to CSUN who let us use their fascilities.

Hereafter it went on pretty well, second place in acceleration and sixth in skiddad (tell that to the design judges who totally ditched our susp. design and told us that the car was WAY to heavy).

Unfortunately the brake overtravel switch was activated after six lap in endurance, and you all know what this means

Overall we had a great racing weekend!

/Per

Chalmers Formula Student

Kyle,

Its all good. We all argreed early on that we wanted to compete with the teams on the track, not on the sidelines.

We were glad that you were able to find us. Hopefully if all goes right, we'll be hanging out with you guys at the Texas shootout.

I'm curious as to what the ride frequencies were on the BYU car- it looked like the 4 Hz range, and was quite ridiculous when the car hit bumps.

I didn't get a chance to ask the team, anybody from the team have any input? It seems surprising to make it that far in design with a suspension that seemed like a hinderance on track.

So who finished top ten and what were total points? why hasn't anybody posted this yet? The suspense is killing me.

csquinn...the top ten is posted at the bottom of page 2. There are no points, just a top ten list.

I finally got some pictures up.

They're broken down by day:
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

I'll make a 'Best Of' gallery soon.
I'll also zip the good ones into a single file to make it easier to download them.
Send me an email if you want full resolution versions of any of these.

I'll try to give some more comments and reports if I have time later today.

All my pictures from this weekend can be found here.

Here's one of my favorites. I call it the "Michael Royce Boogie".

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kirk Feldkamp,

All the team from Université de Sherbrooke would like to thank CSUN for their extraordinary hospitality. We arrived there saturday june 9. They helped us a lot getting prepared for the competition and fixing the car. They have been really good for us. We would not have been able to make it without them.

Big THANKS to Pablo and his team!!

Unfortunatly, a lot of problem happened to us. The noise test and a lot of other things slowed us down and we missed the accel and skid pad event. We were able to run the autocross, finishing in 22 place with a 45.9xx. In the endurance, the overtravel switch was activated after 7 or 8 laps. The first driver said that the pedal started to become loose after the second lap. The problem was getting worst at each lap to the point there was no more brake. When we got back the car at the end of event, the brakes were back!!
Has anyone ever had problem with brake fuild? Seam like we just got one.

Anyway, We had a lot of fun, we lurned a lot and we will be back stronger!!

Mathieu

Does anyone have a video of the OU big bang?

quote:

Originally posted by turbotwig:
Here's one of my favorites. I call it the "Michael Royce Boogie".



-Kirk

quote:

Originally posted by Mathieu:
The first driver said that the pedal started to become loose after the second lap. The problem was getting worst at each lap to the point there was no more brake. When we got back the car at the end of event, the brakes were back!!
Has anyone ever had problem with brake fuild? Seam like we just got one.
Mathieu

That sounds exactly like brake fade- your brakes got too hot, boiled the brake fluid, and the brake pedal got really soft.

By the way, good job on making sure your brake overtravel switch was positioned such that the engine was killed when the brakes went away. That happened right in front of where James Waltman and I were standing and I saw the CVT primary drive stop right before the corner and the car went straight off into the grass and stopped safely.

Kansas U has a video of the final 10-15 seconds of the OU car. Lawrence is trying to gert the proper music to go with the clip and they are still on the road. It will be up soon.

Mathieu,

we are very happy we were able to help your team! it was great having you guys in our lab. i'm sure you will be welcome again at CSUN next year.

Here`s video footage of the OU fire.

http://www.youtube.com/v/5U2YyIk7XSE

Sorry for the lack of zoom but blame that on the camera.

After the accident all the fire trucks arrived in a timely fashion, nice work FSAE West organization!!

Hey, kinda reminds me of a little fire that happened up at Indy this weekend too... http://youtube.com/watch?v=UCc2vVxEGDk