Name This Car

By the way, the new car does not have a name yet. If anyone has any ideas for names, let us know. We need a name before we go to the race.


Help us name this car.

Testing Madness

So the new car is fast, it handles, and it does not break. What more could we ask for. Here are some pictures of the car in action that we took when we went testing last saturday. We need to tweek the suspension a bit because it feels like we are driving a ford truck (that means that the shocks are way too stiff). Other than that, this think is ready to dominate.

RUNNING CAR!!!

Since my last posts, we have gotten the whole car assembled, and think it will be running tomorrow. If anyone would like to come out and see it run, we will be testing at the airport this saturday, 5/24/08.

Also, if you would like to come out and help us finish the car, we will be working on it thursday evening at 6:00 and friday at 5:00. We do all of our work at C.A.R. (the center for automotive research). The adress for this place is 9:30 Kinnear Road, Columbus OH 43212. If you would like to come out and help, or just check out the car in person, e-mail me at hilty.24@osu.edu, or just stop out.

Hope to see you there.

-Devin

Gearbox Update

So, we worked out all of the kinks, and here are some pictures of the new gearbox with gears in it. It is together now, and working in the car.

Rolling Chassis

We finally got this car rolling. Here are some pictures of the whole thing standing on it's suspension. There is still alot to be done at this point, but it will get there.














Look at how long the A-arms are. That means long suspension travel. This car will be straight up awesome. I can't wait to take this thing off some jumps.

Drivetrain Update

Update,

We got the drive train assembled and the mounts all in last week. I have some pictures of it below. Now we just need to finish some small machining stuff.

Since this picture was taken, much more was done. This thing is just about ready to fire up. All we need now is a small bolt that is on order.

Here is a picture of me standing satisfied next to it.

What was not finished was the CVT. See the two shafts sticking out of the big piece of aluminum? Those are where our CVT mounts. Then there is a big cover that goes on. We were working on machining parts of that. I will get pictures up when I can.




Basically, you are staring at about $8,000 worth of machining. That is pretty fascinating when you think about it.

CVT Cover

You guys wanna see something sweet?

This piece of aluminum on the mill here......

Was machined down like this.....

And then it was turned into this.....

This is our CVT spacer plate. A CVT is a continuously varying transmission. That means that instead of shifting occasionally (like your car probably does), it does it continuously. Therefore, we can always be at the right gearing reduction. Thats how you get alot of performance out of a small engine.

The plate above spaces the CVT out. It is belt driven, which means that the spacing has to be perfect. Now we can weld in our drivetrain mounts and not worry about the CVT being out of line.