"Snuze: Needs another Swede" (markg)
05/12/2015 at 13:55 • Filed to: None
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"Snuze: Needs another Swede" (markg)
05/12/2015 at 13:55 • Filed to: None | 1
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Just talked to the current team captain of my old FSAE team. They were doing some last minute dyno tweaks yesterday evening and grenaded their motor. They have a backup, and it’s getting swapped into the car right now, but they were supposed to shove off for competition this morning. So they will be heading out this afternoon with no backup. Helluva situation to be in.
TheHondaBro
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/12/2015 at 14:00 |
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Kinda the same with our ASME project this year. At the very last minute, our good servos burned out, so we had to use our backup servos. We managed to leave for the competition on time, but we didn’t win because our backup servos didn’t have enough torque.
Damn.
DrJohannVegas
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/12/2015 at 14:02 |
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Get on the announcements early, get on the announcements often, amirite?
If they are running something fairly common, I know my old team used to roll in with a bunch of spares (of varying degrees of crappiness) just in case we popped one or needed to swap.
In related news, the traditionally-shitty weather has arrived in Michigan.
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> TheHondaBro
05/12/2015 at 14:02 |
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That sucks, tough break. When I did FSAE in ‘13 we put our good motor in the car and it made it all the way through competition, ran flawlessly. And then detonated itself on the next to last lap of the endurance race. I’ve never seen a piston sit sideways in a cylinder before.
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> DrJohannVegas
05/12/2015 at 14:04 |
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You’re right. It’s a tough year because we went back to a 4 banger so everyone is kind of re-learning everything again. We tried the CRF450 single for a few years, but honestly, f*ck that piece of crap. It’s great in ATVs, I’m sure, but we could never get the reliability we wanted out of it.
Rock Bottom
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/12/2015 at 14:45 |
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Now’s the time to revert to your conservative spark and fuel maps! That, or go all-in... which is kinda my thing. If you’re using a fairly common engine, you might find another team willing to lend you a spare at MIS if your backup shits the bed.
Regardless, good luck. The weather here has been pretty typical of Michigan lately. That is to say, schizophrenic.
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> Rock Bottom
05/12/2015 at 14:47 |
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Thanks! I’m not going, but I’m there in spirit. I love FSAE so much, I think it’s a great program and I don’t know why it’s not mandatory for all engineering students. Well, I know why it’s not, but it probably should be.
And I agree, at this point I’d be all in. Either go home victorious, or piss everyone else off and delay the race while they have to clean up your blown up shit. Not that we ever did that...
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Rock Bottom
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/12/2015 at 15:03 |
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YES! Grease the track down in a fiery sacrifice to the Hoon Gods!
PS9
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/12/2015 at 15:19 |
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Depending on the shot, one bullet might be all you need.
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> Rock Bottom
05/12/2015 at 15:20 |
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Actually at MIS 2013, our car grenaded on the track and they had to stop Endurance for a bit to get the car off and clean everything up. It delayed the race just long enough so that the top seeded teams, who go last in endurance, had to run in the rain, severely slowing their lap times.
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> PS9
05/12/2015 at 15:22 |
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Well, it’s an FSAE competition weekend, so that means 2 acceleration runs, 2 skidpads, AutoX, and a 24 lap endurance run. The CBR600RRs are usually robust enough to make it, but it’s always nice to have a backup. It’s almost impossible to do with the single cylinder engines though.
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Rock Bottom
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/12/2015 at 15:25 |
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Way to take one for the team!
Nisman
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
05/12/2015 at 15:57 |
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My friend’s SAE team has an 11 year old CBR600 engine and it still runs great. Dunno how all these other teams manage to blow theirs up so often.
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> Nisman
05/12/2015 at 16:01 |
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We had F4i’s run for years. One of them we ran for 30 minutes of hard driving doing skid pad testing with no coolant in it. We stopped, added coolant, and kept flogging, and it ran for 2 more years fine.
The issue with this engine is it was a fresh rebuild and it ate a bearing. Makes me thinking it was a workmanship problem more than anything else.