FSAE Projects and Cars

[ApeX-CrZn]

For those of you who don't know anything about FSAE, FSAE is a student design competition organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers). The point of the competition is for each school to design a car for a "non-professional weekend autocross driver." Although the cars are essentially mini formula cars.

Here are links to the Other similar SAE events:

Clean Snowmobile
http://students.sae.org/competitions/snowmobile/
Aerodesign
http://students.sae.org/competitions/aerodesign/
Baja
http://students.sae.org/competitions/bajasae/
Supermileage
http://students.sae.org/competitions/supermileage/
Formula
http://students.sae.org/competitions/formulaseries/
Formula Hybrid
http://www.formula-hybrid.org/


I know there are a lot of College Students on here, who are also members of there respective college's FSAE Teams. So i figured it would be fun to see what everyone is working on.

[ApeX-CrZn]

I'll start off, I am a part of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Formula Hybrid SAE team. The pictures are from our first year of competition in which we ran as a full electric car, and won First place for hybrid in progress.

more detailed build pictures are on the website:
http://www.calpolysae.org/

Just some fun shots from comp:
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5208/3513050421b0b959fea7.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1569/fhaction1.jpg

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7861/42626440815183756401287.jpg



The video linked below also was featured in August 2009 on Racecar engineering:

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/articles/videos/386467/cal-poly-slo-formula-hybrid-camber-car.html

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9585/picture9xp.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/picture9xp.jpg/)

[zachf88]

Project manager of Dalhousie (In Halifax, NS, Canada) Formula SAE right here!

We are competing in Michigan this Spring....

[big_greasy_taco]

Holy negative camber Batman!

Frame, suspension, wheels lead engineer here

[josmo]

Holy negative camber Batman!

[>_<]

post up some pictures of your designs!

don't be shy show off those wheels!

[seank]

Just linked some pics of last year's car in the project thread. I'm leader of Engine Development, we used to run a R6, then two years ago we went to the single cylinder side, this year I have a designed a turbo setup that is tuned on E85. Best pull so far on the dyno has put out 58 hp w/ the restrictor in the intake. I goto Temple University, last year we competed at VIR and California. We are only designing and testing this year and should have a strong showing next year. Apex CrZn, who was responsible for your suspension geometry, and how did it not get thrashed in design review? Do you guys not use Mitchell or some other suspension geometry tool?

[ApeX-CrZn]

Just linked some pics of last year's car in the project thread. I'm leader of Engine Development, we used to run a R6, then two years ago we went to the single cylinder side, this year I have a designed a turbo setup that is tuned on E85. Best pull so far on the dyno has put out 58 hp w/ the restrictor in the intake. I goto Temple University, last year we competed at VIR and California. We are only designing and testing this year and should have a strong showing next year. Apex CrZn, who was responsible for your suspension geometry, and how did it not get thrashed in design review? Do you guys not use Mitchell or some other suspension geometry tool?

Thrashed in design?? the design judges had no problem with it they actually liked it. The wheels and tires save 5+lbs a corner, which helped us come in at least 150+ lbs lighter than the next lightest car at comp. We use optimum G and the suspension is fully functional, and pulled a 1.1Gs on a 50ft skid pad. This is for formula hybrid not fsae. Check out the March issue of momentum magazine

The links to your formula car i don't think are working?

[big_greasy_taco]

I just got the march issue of momentum. Nice article.