Building a race car livestream!

"AntiSpeed" (AntiSpeed) 08/09/2016 at 13:29 • Filed to: None

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Come hang out as I build my Formula 1600! Right now I’m putting on a lower sidepod so we can figure out how to run the coolant piping, then refurbishing some suspension arms.

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ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper > AntiSpeed 08/09/2016 at 13:31

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Look at that beautiful mess... I need more shop space...

Also Smile and wave!

A personally addressed note would be cool.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > AntiSpeed 08/09/2016 at 13:42

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My record is 6 weeks to design and build a racecar from scratch. (Ok it was a team of 15 of us) Can you top that?

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 08/09/2016 at 13:51

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Heres the timeline we worked on:

ChooChooMotherFudger > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 08/09/2016 at 14:09

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Nice one, I always like to see a FSAE post on here.
Our record (not really proud of it) is bare frame to driving in 9 days, with a disappointingly small amount of design work done already.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > ChooChooMotherFudger 08/09/2016 at 14:23

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We are actually Formula Hybrid which is an offshoot of FSAE. This was us really getting fed up with our old car which never ran right and was just a poor design to begin with. The entire concept behind this car was to have a simple car that we could have to compete with in 2016 and to use as a vehicle which would always be running and driving for fundraising and recruiting purposes. This year we are probably going to take the time to create a really thought out design to try for a perfect score (we finished second by 40 points with this design).

ChooChooMotherFudger > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 08/09/2016 at 14:28

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Well close enough. We have looked into doing hybrid and might end up doing electric.

But yeah, racecar is hard.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > ChooChooMotherFudger 08/09/2016 at 14:39

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This car was an electric where the previous car was hybrid. Building a hybrid in 6 weeks would be impossible without simply transplanting an existing powertrain into a new chassis. We are debating possibly switching into FSAE-Electric though my vote is to do a new hybrid powertrain design in the fall and then build a chassis around that in the spring. The big problem with the old car was that the chassis was designed without a specific powertrain in mind meaning that the solutions we tried never fit properly.

ChooChooMotherFudger > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 08/09/2016 at 15:03

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Oh yeah that would never work really well.

AntiSpeed > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 08/09/2016 at 15:29

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I don’t think I can beat that. It’s only two of us, but at least we don’t have to design it from scratch!

AntiSpeed > ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper 08/09/2016 at 15:30

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It’s a mess but, strangely I know more or less where everything is!