"Bandit - destroyed his car" (notbandit)
11/20/2016 at 14:56 • Filed to: FSAE
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"Bandit - destroyed his car" (notbandit)
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I took these photos of our FSAE car in Ford’s wind tunnel instead.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 14:59 |
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Jealous of your budget. My schools Formula Hybrid team built a car last year on a budget of less than $10k (we stole a lot of parts from previous cars). We still built an awesome car and finished second. This year we only have a budget of $17k.
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Bandit - destroyed his car
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
11/20/2016 at 15:07 |
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It’s all about sponsorships. We don’t have a huge budget (about 12k from our school), but we make up for it by having a lot of great sponsors willing to donate money, parts, or labor for our team.
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TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 15:11 |
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We are running entirely off of sponsors right now. Our school has one fund which gets split across all the clubs and there are a ton of new clubs this year meaning we got no money (which is a bit strange because unlike most of the other clubs we provide a ton of advertising for the school). We have a lot of new sponsors for this year who are willing to provide manufacturing for us but not much in the way of providing funds which can be used for purchases.
jimz
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 15:26 |
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was that WT8 in Allen Park? Wind Tunnel 2 in Dearborn was just demolished.
Batman the Horse
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 15:31 |
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You make me want to go back to school just to study engineering so I can do this.
tromoly
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 15:50 |
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Mind sharing what the blocks under the rear tires in the second picture is for? Seems like it would kill the “squish” zone where the tires touch the ground.
P5guy now GTIguy
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 15:56 |
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My School’s FSAE is a joke. They make it a mechanical engineering senior project to which they assign people at random, so those that don’t want to be on the team end up on it and those who do (like me) don’t. then they have a 10k budget to have two working cars for some stupid reason and to top it all off they cant start working on the car till the first week of school...
Levitas
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 16:17 |
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Oh hey you were there? I was one of the two Ford employees that showed up for the test. Hope you guys had tons of fun and got useful data!
Rock Bottom
> tromoly
11/20/2016 at 16:32 |
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The balance pads in DTF (and Chrysler’s tunnel, and GM’s too) aren’t able to accommodate small wheelbase-track width combinations. The plates and blocks allow the small car to bridge the gap to the pads.
Matsayz
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 18:11 |
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*This time...you need to come back. I actually have this shirt
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tromoly
> Rock Bottom
11/20/2016 at 18:58 |
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Right, Monash’s wind tunnel is similar (seen articles on it, I didn’t go to Monash), that part makes sense. It’s the white block under the rear wheels in the second picture that has me wondering.
just-a-scratch
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 20:23 |
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Nice looking car there. Aero has grown a LOT since I was involved in 2003.
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just-a-scratch
> P5guy now GTIguy
11/20/2016 at 20:28 |
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When I did this we had a team of 30, but 90% of the work was done by 10 people. Also, I usually put in over 30 hours a week on FSAE. It was also the project most similar to real engineering work.
Keep it up!
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Bandit - destroyed his car
> just-a-scratch
11/20/2016 at 21:44 |
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Haha yeah, we didn’t even start running full aero packages till around 2010. If you want to see more of what we’re doing, I post a lot of pictures to facebook.com/PurdueFSAE
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Bandit - destroyed his car
> tromoly
11/20/2016 at 21:46 |
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We were testing what a 2 degree incline would do to our aero package. Sort of simming what happens under braking hard.
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Bandit - destroyed his car
> just-a-scratch
11/20/2016 at 21:47 |
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Haha, good to know nothing has changed except a move to a smaller shop.
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Bandit - destroyed his car
> Levitas
11/20/2016 at 21:48 |
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Our aero team was pouring over it all night. Thank you for all your help (and putting up with a slightly broken car)!
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Bandit - destroyed his car
> jimz
11/20/2016 at 21:48 |
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Yes
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tromoly
> Bandit - destroyed his car
11/20/2016 at 22:37 |
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jimz
> Levitas
11/21/2016 at 06:49 |
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I did FSAE in ‘98, had I known I might have found a way to come by. Usually stuck in the basement of PDC and they don’t let us out to see the sun much ;)
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Levitas
> jimz
11/21/2016 at 19:55 |
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Ah sounds about right. I knew one of the members closely so I said I’d stop by.