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Hey guys, anyone else joined a FSAE team somewhere? I'm part of the Victoria University one. My role is engine/drivetrain development, and there is a slaughterfest for driver later at a karting place which I will be competing in (so any tips are welcome lol). Just want to open some discussions :ermm:

For those who don't know what it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_SAE

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There is an abundance of SAE research available on the web. From my experience, not many papers have been of much use since they are always so specific to a componant and to their particular car. I read an interesting article on ackerman steering and their derivation of steering geometry once but the good ones have been few and far between.

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Heh, we are still in the early planning stage of it so no pics or videos as of yet :D

Also good to see some people or some people who know other people who are doing it lol.

Not an easy task as there are more than 100 pages dedicated to rules of entering, and strict inspections.

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Niceee! I'm guessing you guys competed last year / this year? Our kart got stolen so we are starting from scratch :P

We are in a massive disadvantage with fundings, how did you guys get sponsors etc? Our budget is lying around $25k :D We used the CBR 250 RR engine where as other unis (eg. Monash) were using CBR 600 RR engines lol... (40hp compared to 80hp).

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Myself and one of my mates are the team leaders of Team Swinburne Electric, based in Hawthorn.

Its the first year the uni has built a proper electric race car, and proudly we are competing in the first ever electric class at the SAE comp this year.

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Well that's not for me to finalize but the previous years we have used either the Honda CBR 250 RRs or the Yamaha YZF-R6 so we may use that again. Still very early on in the design process, roles have been handed out and we just had a briefing on previous FSAEs and strategies.

We should be using a rear wheel drivetrain as per usual, but some people have brought up an AWD drivetrain similar in function to the GTRs to be more unique or experiment (doubt it will get far lol). As for transmission, there have been ideas of 2 speeds going round but i will debate on at least a 4 speed to keep the torque up ;)

We are not competing this year but do expect the ultimate challenger in 2012 :D

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There's a lot of teams using the CBR600RR, that would be one reason to choose it, the amount of knowledge around. Not sure what the difference is in terms of performance. Remember you have to run a restricter, which completely changes any torque curves and anything else to do with performance.

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Well that's not for me to finalize but the previous years we have used either the Honda CBR 250 RRs or the Yamaha YZF-R6 so we may use that again. Still very early on in the design process, roles have been handed out and we just had a briefing on previous FSAEs and strategies.

We should be using a rear wheel drivetrain as per usual, but some people have brought up an AWD drivetrain similar in function to the GTRs to be more unique or experiment (doubt it will get far lol). As for transmission, there have been ideas of 2 speeds going round but i will debate on at least a 4 speed to keep the torque up :P

We are not competing this year but do expect the ultimate challenger in 2012 :down:

AWD's against the regulations dude, car has to be RWD, open wheeler.

Our car has the CBR600 motor in it too, mounted on a transaxle in the rear obviously, carbon fiber shell, carbon intake manifold, mountain bike shocks and hundreds of man hours of engine dyno time and suspension tuning.

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