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09-05-2009, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | |  Going to design a Formula car next year.
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A Formula Student car to be exact. Some people may know it as Formula SAE.
I'm part of this years DUTRacing Team from Delft. www.dutracing.nl Together with 60 other students we're going to design, build, test and race a car that does the 0-60 (mph) faster than a Maserati Quattroporte and has a top speed of around 150 km/h.
Delft is currently ranked 5th in the world, so we'll have to build a great car to maintain that status.
Some vids of previous cars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aZHmT8Wdls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkX6jt1LZsY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWK4VNCWc8 |
09-05-2009, 04:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Bugtussle | | | Very KOOL !!!
What kind of engine does it have?
It kinda sounded like a 2 cyl. motorcycle engine.
Dave
Last edited by Tama : 09-05-2009 at 04:29 PM.
Reason: 2 cyl not 4 cyl.
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09-05-2009, 04:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Frederick, MD | | | Dude, that sounds like one sick project. Good luck and keep us updated!
Peace,
Greg
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09-05-2009, 04:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tama Very KOOL !!!
What kind of engine does it have?
It kinda sounded like a 2 cyl. motorcycle engine.
Dave | It's a single cylinder. Honda I thought, not sure. It runs on E85. |
09-05-2009, 05:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Houston (right now: RIT) | | | My college, RIT has a team too. I went to first couple of meetings but didn't like the atmosphere at all. We freshman had to do most of the machining work and I didn't feel involved with the actual car.
Hope you have a better experience. It's definitely a cool idea.
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09-06-2009, 04:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | | Oh yeah, RIT has got a pretty good car too. They were in Germany last summer. Great guys to have a party with.
RIT builds a 4 cylinder tube frame car. (We build a 1 cylinder carbon frame car.) The detail and working on the car itself is pretty refined. They make different design choices than us but they know why they make the design choices, and that's the most important. They definitely know what they're doing. I thought they were currently ranked 12th in the world.
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09-08-2009, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | | Currently studying on the rules test I got next tuesday. 100 pages of rules and regulations the car has to meet. And I have to know them all... |
09-08-2009, 05:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | My Uni does pretty well in SAE from year to year.
I'm a designer, though. My awesome sense of aesthetics won't get a car to run better.
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09-08-2009, 06:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Suburbia, USA | | | theres a class at my highschool that does that, i was thinking of taking it, but it has a ton of prerecrasits and you have to come in on the weekends
my friend took it and got to drive one of thier cars, apparently it got 52,000 mpg and they made one that was street legal that got 110 mpg |
09-08-2009, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by funkout5 theres a class at my highschool that does that, i was thinking of taking it, but it has a ton of prerecrasits and you have to come in on the weekends | I take it that you didn't get in? 
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09-21-2009, 04:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | | So it's been some time now since my last update and a lot has happened.
I'm part of the suspension team of the car and my task is to design the spring damper system (SDS) together with a teammate. The rules test did go surprisingly well but the results aren't available as of yet. This week's deadline is to finish the Functions and Requirements of your part, SDS for me. We're almost finished with that, just some minor alterations and clarifications. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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