Awesome design error.

[RollingCamel]

PatClarke will love this!

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/04/gsrautosport4013.jpg

Source (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/12/gsr-autosport-bmw-350r-part-iv-our-inaugural-event-begins-wit/2#comments)

This car deserves better.

[RollingCamel]

PatClarke will love this!

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/04/gsrautosport4013.jpg

Source (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/12/gsr-autosport-bmw-350r-part-iv-our-inaugural-event-begins-wit/2#comments)

This car deserves better.

[flavorPacket]

I've seen worse. In fact I've seen worse finish endurance

[Mike Cook]

yeah but that was on a full size car!

[ESaenz]

lolcopter

[RyMan]

Any soon to be FSAE alumns want to start a drift team upon graduation and dominate?

[RollingCamel]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by RyMan:
Any soon to be FSAE alumns want to start a drift team upon graduation and dominate? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Actually the drift team got many responses from FSAE and Mini-Baja ppl and they admit the fact that they need an engineer.

[AxelRipper]

wow... looks like baja's uprights

[HenningO]

To their defense, it's not like the front axle on a drift car will see very big loads

[Adambomb]

Wow, look how much that left-most arm warped from having all that garbage welded onto it. And lord knows what the microstructure is, sure don't look heat treated. Talk about massive FAIL.

[Wesley]

it's actually bent on purpose.

:/ but it was a bit TOO weak because of the horrendous design so they gave it a bit of gusseting.

[flavorPacket]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by HenningO:
To their defense, it's not like the front axle on a drift car will see very big loads </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

neither do FSAE cars. But if any of us ever told that to a design judge, even though it is entirely relevant, they'd crucify us.

[PatClarke]

Hammer, nails and wood already packed! With lots of nails....blunt and rusty! I hope I dont have any problems with Customs in LAX ;-)

Pat

[Ben Beacock]

well hey.. at least the rod-end in bending didn't break!

[Ockham]

Their control arm reacts loads into a beam, not a node, and they tried to fix the problem with a pair of MIG-welded gussets.

*headdesk*

Does it scare anyone else that they said they need an engineer? That implies that they don't have any, which is kind of alarming.

[alumasteel]

At least they added speed holes to the gusset material... that probably freed up a few horsepower... http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Adambomb]

The problem is they didn't make an A-arm (or a "V" arm), they made a lowercase lambda arm...

[flavorPacket]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PatClarke:
Hammer, nails and wood already packed! With lots of nails....blunt and rusty! I hope I dont have any problems with Customs in LAX ;-)

Pat </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm not even scared anymore, Pat!

You may yet rue the day when a bunch of FSAE alumni with professional racing experience go back for a Master's and win the competition using a car with rod ends in bending.

[jm1495]

I wonder if the guy who designed this posted a thread here "how to design a suspension.. first year team"

[PatClarke]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">win the competition using a car with rod ends in bending. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


That they might FP, but they sure as shootin' won't win Design!

Pat =]

[GianVioli]

I just dont understand why you made an Arm like that... any chance you wanna share the whole history?

[Adambomb]

It wasn't an FSAE team, it was some drifters with a Bimmer. Check the link in the OP marked "Source."