craig
cool insider info!! :)
yep seems not too many of the aussie teams left too much time for tuning
(understandable though given the huge task it must have been)
swinburne had their car finished pretty early (about a month) but still
somehow didnt do any tuning/testing due to undisclosed problems.
melbourne finished theirs on the tuesday before the weekend competition -
wednesday it was back in the workshop with broken axles :) no time on
engine tuning - they had it running ultra rich all weekend just to get it
to run at all.
monash supposedly crashed theirs on the wednesday or thursday before the
competition in its first run in the university carpark :) stuck throttle
cable. chassis bent and they werent even expecting to be able to fix it.
fair effort to even make the competition.
andrew
On Mon, 1 Jan
2001, Craig Overend wrote:
> Craig,
> what did the CA18DET cost you they seem to be quite cheap these days?
>
> I have some insider news on the results of the Formulae SAE-A that they
> wont publish because they have already handed out the trophies. The
> University of New South Wales was supposed to have won of the aussie
> cars but at the end of the day after they had given out the trophies
> which was before the endurance/fuel comsumptions test results were even
> posted the RMIT guys were unable to find the officials(who'd left) to
> protest about the fuel consumption results. It turns out that after
> lodging thier protest later on the UNSW fuel consumption results were
> found to be wrong and because of it RMIT should have won outright. They
> were supposed to put the protest in within 1 hour but since there was no
> officials there they got screwed.
> I spoke to one of the Deakin guys that said they had not tested the car
> before they got it there. It used a Yamaha 600cc and from what I hear
> the engine model they used isnt very reliable. I know that RMIT had the
> car ready only a week before. The Americans run their series in August
> so they had heaps of time to fine tune the cars.
> I got a free lunch and two FSAE-A free t-shirts out of it so I aint
> complianing! :)
> I'm told in America they have a system whereby after each run they have
> to sign in saying they agree with the results so there aren't any
> protests.
>
> Craig.
>
> Craig Harris wrote:
> >
> > That was me. the weekend was wicked and most of the cars were well built.
> > The americans, Rochester and Texas had it over all the aussies but they have
> > been going to FSAE for about 8 years and this was the first time its been in
> > Australia. I think most of the Australians didn't have enough time to fine
> > tune, like Deakin couldn't get out of 3rd gear! so next year should be
> > bigger and more competitive.
> >
> > Will be taking a lot of time to complete a car and the datto may not see any
> > action for a while (just bought a ca18det so ill probably have to find time
> > somewhere to put that in :)
> >
> > Cya
> > Craig
> >
> > >From: Craig Overend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: OZDAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Subject: Formulae SAE
> > >Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 21:01:58 +1100
> > >
> > >There was someone on the OZDAT list that mailed me before christmas that
> > >was going to the Formulae SAE challenge at the Ford Proving Grounds but
> > >I can't remember who. What did you think? I did end up going on
> > >Saturday(free ticket). I highly recommend it next year for anyone
> > >interested, the American cars were very nice.
> > >
> > >Craig.
> > >
> > >
> >
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>
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