on THOR is making progress! This week the team made sure all the components fit properly in the battery box. They added a firewall, the batteries, cabling, fuses, a battery management system, and relays! Team members Zach, Xavier, and Chris are working hard this week!
on Our Baja SAE team is officially running! With two weekends of testing under our belt, we know what changes need to be made to our front uprights and a few other designs. We compete in Gorman, CA in two months!
on Thanks to your support, we have reached over 100% of our fundraising goal of $5,000. Every dollar we raise will be used to make our teams and vehicles competition-ready over the next few months. While we have reached our initial goal, we are grateful for any and all contributions to our program. We will continue to accept donations through the end of our campaign – 9 days left!
To express our gratitude, we have produced the following video in honor of our past, present, and future supporters. Check out our vehicles!
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With the start of winter quarter the electric racing team has switched its focus from the electrical systems to the mechanical systems. Thor will be using a double wishbone suspension since that allows us to maintain a reasonable camber while the wheels travel up and down. So far the suspension team has finished preliminary designs for all four uprights and their respective control arms.
The suspension is designed so that the car will meet FSAE rules by having a ground clearance of 2 inches with a travel of 1.25 inches vertically. Additionally, since the car will be approximately 800 pounds with a driver, it is important to have suspension that is robust and strong.
The next step will be designing the push rods and doing a finite elements analysis to confirm the uprights are strong enough. A completed suspension design should be finished by the end of week five and be completely built and installed on the frame by the end of the winter quarter.
