Month: April 2016

Raider Off-Road Testing

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There’s nothing like spending a sunny Saturday playing outside in the dirt. Yesterday, our Raider team got to work on prepping a local hiking trail for their car to tear up. They set up several features along the trail including ditches, breaking bumps, rock crawls, and a dirt jump. While part of the team worked on the trail, other members worked on testing the car to get the CVT dialed. Today the team plans to head back out to the trail to test out Raider’s suspension on the features they built. Check back here later and follow us on Facebook and Instagram to see how the day went!

SAE SoCal Section Meeting

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An SAE Southern California Section Meeting will be held April 12, 2016 at University of California, Irvine. At the event, a Mazda Engineer will describe the design and features of the 2016 Mazda MX 5. In addition, the UCI Formula SAE cars will be put on display. The event will begin at 6:00pm in the Harut Barsamian Colloquia Room (EH 2430). All are welcome so come show your support for Anteater Racing!

 

Late Night for Savage

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Late night for Savage
Late night for Savage

It was well into the night, but three team members on Savage were still hard at work! They were highly focused as they undertook the task of interfacing the head restraint with the firewall to separate the engine bay from the driver.

Raider is Up and Running!

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After two quarters of design and fabrication, Raider was finally brought to life last week. Over the weekend, the team had a chance to take the car out to a school parking lot to test out the car’s acceleration, braking, and handling characteristics. It was a solid day of testing and provided the team with some good insight into how they can tune Raider for even better performance. Check out the video of how the day went and stay tuned for more from Raider and the rest of the Anteater Racing fleet!