Its alive!

Videos below of our very first drive.
No wings, no anti-roll bars and no attempt at set-up. This is straight out of the box.

More videos and photos to follow soon.

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~fsae/monash2003test.wmv

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~fsae/monash2003test2.wmv

Regards,

Scott Wordley

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~fsae

Is that this year's car for Detroit? If so then I am way impressed

nah, thats for dec '03 (fsae-australasia). wait until you see the wings that go on it!

- if it isnt coming, you need a bigger tool.

What's the doohicky behind the front-left tire? Tire temp sensors?

University of Washington Formula SAE ('98, '99, '03)

Heh, I noticed that too. Not a very good place for keeping rocks off the sensors, but it is quite discreet

Congrats on testing so soon, you are definitely ahead of the curve.

-Charlie Ping
Auburn University FSAE
5th Overall Detroit 2003
? Overall Aussie 2003.

Thats right Denny and Charlie, well spotted. There is also a rear rack but part of it was taken off because it was scrapping due to the lack of rollbars.

I personally know of at least 5 (or a third of) Australian teams that are logging tyre pyros this year, among other things. How does that compare with the states, I saw photos of Kettering with a rack.

Stones aren't a problem if you design it right.

Regards,

Scott Wordley

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~fsae

New video just posted from today's testing.
Will add more vids and pics as soon as we finish this evil cost report.

Until then enjoy.

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~fsae/LOST-1SetOfBigBlackWings.wmf

Any more Aussie teams on Track yet?

Regards,

Scott Wordley

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~fsae

nice place for testing, those echos make the car sound awesome.

- the problem with the world is stupidity. i'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety lables off of everything and let the problem solve itself?