drove formula car first time
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RE: drove formula car first time
ORIGINAL: mybrokenblinker
Sweet man, cool talking to someone with experience in the program...yeah the car didn't have the air inlet restrictor on it, so it was much faster than it will actually be in competition. I think that their official numbers for last year were 3.7. And yeah Koshak, on the course you wouldn't get past 85, but this was bigger than an actual course that you would officially see cuz we set it up in an abandoned airport area. And yeah, i am worried about the camera, but I'm at least going to try it.
Sweet man, cool talking to someone with experience in the program...yeah the car didn't have the air inlet restrictor on it, so it was much faster than it will actually be in competition. I think that their official numbers for last year were 3.7. And yeah Koshak, on the course you wouldn't get past 85, but this was bigger than an actual course that you would officially see cuz we set it up in an abandoned airport area. And yeah, i am worried about the camera, but I'm at least going to try it.
In the case of the UCSD car since it's the most powerful car made to date, according the dyno at the Detroit event, we can't run a super low final drive or we never get the power down so we just pulled 4th-6th out of the tranny to save rotational mass and moved the remaining gears up one making 1st gear a very easy to find neutral.
If your car is N/A I suggest using 4 gears and putting on a lower final drive to top out around 80. If you've ever seen an FSAE autocross at competition you'll know what I'm talking about.
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