Aussies show your cars!

[repeatoffender]

I see the Oz comp is coming up soon.

Aussies show us your car progress here now!

[Moke]

You show me yours and I'll show you mine.

[JamesWolak]

Did UOW have a team this year?

[repeatoffender]

Id show you mine but i dont have one!

Id also like to know if UOW has a car this year, the last few they have fallen off the pedistal so to speak.

[MalcolmG]

Wollongong's website has a newsletter up from August which definitely suggests they're building a car. I think their goal for a running car was mid september? Seems like most Aus teams have gone quiet lately, I suspect there's some long hours going down in fsae workshops throughout the country. We've been wondering whether our countrymen Waikato are going to be there this year. Haven't heard anything from them since early this year although someone at a dragstrip we use for testing mentioned that they had been there running so they must have something going for this year.

[Chris Lane]

Originally posted by MalcolmG:
We've been wondering whether our countrymen Waikato are going to be there this year.

I don't recall seeing them on the entry list.

A lot of indian teams entered for '08 (six I think!).

[brettd]

If they do come, they'll be one to watch as they could be bringing their 07 car with a lot of testing and tuning?

[Moke]

Who is entered for FSAE-A? Could you please post a list Chris.

[Chris Lane]

The bit of paper is at our workshop, so I'll post it sometime tomorrow.

Some off the top of my head (besides the obvious ones);

ANU
Stuttgart
A technical uni from Malaysia
Helsinki
Curtin
Several Indian teams

Anyway, I'll post the entry list tomorrow.

[Pete M]

Not on this year's team, but wollongong is definitely building a car (sadly the word is still "building" not "driving").

This will be my first comp as a spectator, should be fun.

[Chris Lane]

Official entry list for 2008 is as follows:

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI> Australian National University (61)
<LI> Curtin University of Technology (14)
<LI> Deakin University (5)
<LI> Edith Cowan University (10)
<LI> Helsinki University of Technology (51)
<LI> Indian Institute of Technology Madras (50)
<LI> Monash University (66)
<LI> MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology (62)
<LI> Queensland University of Technology (46)
<LI> P.E.S. Institute of Technology (46)
<LI> RMIT Racing (2)
<LI> Swinburne University of Technology (7)
<LI> Universiti Teknologi Petronas-Malaysia (88)
<LI> University of Adelaide (8)
<LI> University of Auckland (47)
<LI> University of Ballarat (77)
<LI> University of Melbourne (11)
<LI> University of New South Wales (63)
<LI> University of Queensland (41)
<LI> University of Southern Queensland (13)
<LI> University of Stuttgart (29)
<LI> University of Sydney (22)
<LI> University of Western Australia (1)
<LI> University of Western Sydney (36)
<LI> University of Wollongong (24)
<LI> Victoria University (38)
<LI> Universiti of Teknology Malaysia (57)
<LI> Chitkara (92)
<LI> Guru (93)
[/list]

[B. McGinniskin]

Shouldnt Auckland also be on that list?

Cheers
Brendan

[tool]

Hi,
I am from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. We would be participating for the first time in an FSAE competition and are thrilled as well as nervous. Our car should be ready (minus the body works) in another 2 weeks.
Looking forward to meet you all next month.
Abhishek

[Chris Lane]

Originally posted by B. McGinniskin:
Shouldnt Auckland also be on that list?

Cheers
Brendan

yep, I missed them on the list. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[repeatoffender]

i thought it was a simple request, but still no pictures!!!

[Macros]

Seen this?
http://motorsport.mech.uwa.edu.au/media/gallery/season-2008/uwam08-launch.html

[JamesWolak]

Originally posted by Pete M:
Not on this year's team, but wollongong is definitely building a car (sadly the word is still "building" not "driving").

This will be my first comp as a spectator, should be fun.

UoW still useing your sick turbo setup?

[woodsy96]

It appears that there are two cars with number 46

[Chris Lane]

Yeah that's probably my fault

[Pete M]

Originally posted by JamesWolak:
UoW still useing your sick turbo setup?

Yep, another year of development. Some big changes this year, but still turbo.

[JamesWolak]

I am upset there are still no pictures posted

[Chris Lane]

I would post a pic of the car, but it's in a million pieces.

Some teasers of some parts that will be appearing on our first ever car... http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Our completed hubs
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/digitalpho3nix2/hubs.jpg

Nearly completed Differential Assembly. The Center still needed some machining at the time of the photo, but has since been completed.
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/digitalpho3nix2/Diff-Assem.jpg

[repeatoffender]

Originally posted by Chris Lane:
I would post a pic of the car, but it's in a million pieces.

Some teasers of some parts that will be appearing on our first ever car... http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Our completed hubs
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/digitalpho3nix2/hubs.jpg

Nearly completed Differential Assembly. The Center still needed some machining at the time of the photo, but has since been completed.
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr161/digitalpho3nix2/Diff-Assem.jpg

see now chris has the right idea! top stuff chris.

anyone else care to pick up their game?

[Brett Neale]

There's a bunch of oldish UARC08 pics on our website... mostly of parts in manufacture. www.uarc.com.au (http://www.uarc.com.au)

[Fil]

we were rolling on monday. just waiting on a few bits and pieces to get back before we drive.

http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v343/144/43/731403710/n731403710_830333_1298.jpg

we tried to fit more people in but too bad
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v359/177/10/731774358/n731774358_1486480_8286.jpg

some windtunnel snaps

http://photos-g.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v353/211/25/675416100/n675416100_1808662_9723.jpg

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v353/211/25/675416100/n675416100_1808649_5359.jpg

http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v353/211/25/675416100/n675416100_1808656_7642.jpg

enjoy

[Chris Lane]

Looks fantastic!

I really do envy your aero testing capabilities. I would really like to at least build a scale tunnel of some sort in the future.

I reckon we'll be rolling within a week if everything goes to plan, and our wheels clear customs in time. Damn customs...

[repeatoffender]

Originally posted by Brett Neale:
There's a bunch of oldish UARC08 pics on our website... mostly of parts in manufacture. www.uarc.com.au (http://www.uarc.com.au)

liking those uprights brett!!

[Kirby]

Originally posted by repeatoffender:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Brett Neale:
There's a bunch of oldish UARC08 pics on our website... mostly of parts in manufacture. www.uarc.com.au (http://www.uarc.com.au)

liking those uprights brett!! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Adelaide have always had very nice fabbed uprights.

Correct me if I'm wrong; but on the front upright are your upper and lower rod end mounts in single shear?(also lower upright on the rear?)

I remember Pat chewing out some deign about single shear rod-ends. Please tell me I'm missing something?

[Fil]

Single shear pickups shouldn't be a problem if you know all the problems associated with it and design the upright to make sure it's as stiff and strong as a double shear pickup.

UWA have been running single shear pickups for donkeys and I don't see them having any problem in design simply because they have justified the design. I was looking at single shear lower pickups this year to allow for rapid roll centre adjustment, but I couldn't ensure the same performance as double shear. Each to their own.

Below are the '08 cars uprights, fronts weigh in at 650g and rears are a little on the heavy 850g side because the CV's run inside the hub so the bearings had to be quite large. It's cool to see the different ideas on upright design.


http://photos-358.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v359/177/10/731774358/n731774358_1483908_6624.jpg

[salad]

Originally posted by Kirby:
Adelaide have always had very nice fabbed uprights.

Correct me if I'm wrong; but on the front upright are your upper and lower rod end mounts in single shear?(also lower upright on the rear?)

I remember Pat chewing out some deign about single shear rod-ends. Please tell me I'm missing something?

Yes the pick up points are only in single shear, but the FEAs have shown negligible compliance at the pin. Also, our wishbones do not use rod ends, they are spherical bearings mounted in the wishbone.

As pointed out by Fil, UWA ran their uprights like this last year and so did we. Neither of us had issues, so I believe it is fine. Hopefully Pat Clark is a bit more lenient of if it's single shear without rod ends http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Our uprights have come up as 600g on the front and 690g on the rear with basically the same stiffness as last year, so we're quite happy with them.

[Brett Neale]

Originally posted by Kirby:
Adelaide have always had very nice fabbed uprights.

Not always... 2005 had CNC ally fronts and cast ally rears for the DeDion, 2006 had CNC allys all round. 2004, 2007 and 2008 have fabbed 4130 uprights. We brought them back last year since we had so much other machining to do, we offloaded some work to fab instead (very glad we did too).


Originally posted by salad:
Our uprights have come up as 600g on the front and 690g on the rear with basically the same stiffness as last year, so we're quite happy with them.

Not to mention, in 2007 ours were 800g front and 865g rear, well done boys! They're quite a bit smaller too.

[JamesWolak]

Is there going to be a dyno at FSAE-A? I am always impressed with the Aussie motor setups.

[Kirby]

Originally posted by Brett Neale:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Kirby:
Adelaide have always had very nice fabbed uprights.

Not always... 2005 had CNC ally fronts and cast ally rears for the DeDion, 2006 had CNC allys all round. 2004, 2007 and 2008 have fabbed 4130 uprights. We brought them back last year since we had so much other machining to do, we offloaded some work to fab instead (very glad we did too). </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

My bad. I should have been more specific, all the sheet metal fabbed uprights I have seen from your team, I been very impressed with the workman-ship and welding. I wasn't around for your CNC or Cast ones.

[LukieSpookie]

UARC08... Better late then never right?

Some more sneak peaks later in the week.

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s150/lukiespookie/n682025020_1936751_6859.jpg

--------------------------------------------
Managing Director UARC 2008
www.uarc.com.au (http://www.uarc.com.au)

[Chapo]

Hey guys,

UNSW@ADFA wont be attending this year due to the date change so we dont have a car to show http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif . But we do have the next best thing, a new website http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/acme/studentactivities/saevehicle/index.html

Look forward to seeing you all at the 09 comp.

[L B0MB]

Here;s a sneek peek at the CMT08 rear end

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k211/lewis_kitney/CMT08/P1090367.jpg

[Brett Neale]

Looking good Curtin, do you shim out your diff to tension it? How close are you to rolling?

Anyone else notice the RMIT are having their launch tomorrow? I'm interested to see how their usually tiny car turns out for the 2009 templates.

[L B0MB]

Yeah, we use shims for chain tensioning, nice and simple

Almost everything has been fabbed, we are just finding out things arent bolting together as easily as we'd like. I'd say we are a week off a rolling chassis

Design took too long this year hence why we are a tad behind

[Moke]

Our car launch is also tonight, so there will be pictures on our website soon after.

In the mean time here is our launch video:

M08 Launch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD9-ieh0ekw)

[MalcolmG]

RMIT have put up photos of their new car (http://www.fsae.rmit.edu.au/)
Initially it seems very similar in terms of overall layout to the last couple of cars, can't see much in the way of details which I imagine is where most changes lie. I'd like to learn more about the structural sidepods, will probably have to wait until the competition (not long now!)

[repeatoffender]

Still a few cars not putting up the goods.

UOW???


UWA????

SWINBURNE???

Show us some pictures!

[Chris Lane]

UWAM's car launch photos are up on their website

[Fred G]

Chris,

How's ECU going? Update your site with some pics.

What about Curtin, how are you guys going?

Let's show them the best is in the west http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Fred

[Chris Lane]

We don't want to ruin the surprise! http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

You'll all have to see for yourselves in a few weeks.

[L B0MB]

new rims http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k211/lewis_kitney/CMT08/P1090528.jpg

[Chris Lane]

We shipped our first car yesterday. I'm starting to get amped for next weekend!!!

I hope we packed everything....

Anyone else yet to pack up and leave?

[LukieSpookie]

Bit of a promo video. We leave for Melbourne Tuesday.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=HA0qP8qbcNI

--------------------------------------------
Managing Director UARC 2008
www.uarc.com.au (http://www.uarc.com.au)

[mok]

Our car including the first six of us have safely arrived at Melbourne. Thanks RMIT for hosting us!

I can't wait to be there myself! See you soon :-)

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8666/cimg5866nf5.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3749/cimg5875hw7.jpg