chit chat thread
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Full fuel system and wiring, pegboard is temporary of course. Shell does not allow you to run an electric fuel pump so instead I pressurized the whole fuel system!
Got most of the steering taken care of today as well.
Uses a rack and pinion and works pretty damn well.
Judging by the car would you be able to tell that we leave for texas for competition on tuesday?
Getting tired of classmates, 4 of us have put in around 100 hours outside of school working on this thing, and some people barely have 10 in and never work on anything as is.
/rant
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And yes, that computer is connected to the ECU and fuel system. Also have a Bluetooth adapter for it and a program for andriod. Cool stuff that I get to make/ play with!
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Full fuel system and wiring, pegboard is temporary of course. Shell does not allow you to run an electric fuel pump so instead I pressurized the whole fuel system!
Got most of the steering taken care of today as well.
Uses a rack and pinion and works pretty damn well.
Judging by the car would you be able to tell that we leave for texas for competition on tuesday?
Getting tired of classmates, 4 of us have put in around 100 hours outside of school working on this thing, and some people barely have 10 in and never work on anything as is.
/rant
An all too familiar scenario for Senior Design Project groups in college.
Look at it this way, the extra fab skills+experience, small lessons learned, and troubleshooting you have done are all things that you will draw from in your future design endeavors. Your classmates are missing out on this big time.
Almost every new design I do involves some reflecting on "lessons learned" from previous designs.
Also. what pressure are you pressurizing your fuel cell to and how long are you able to drive before re-pressurizing?
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I guess the experience is good, but its still sucks some times lol.
Pressurizing the pressure tank to 5 bar (Hawaiian punch bottle lol) and then running that into a pressure regulator that drops it down to 2-2.5 bar.
Have ran it for a solid 10 minutes with the tank at only 40 psi and had no issues, so I imagine it will run quite a long time!
And no you don't want to build one lol, these things are expensive!
But we get all of our money from sponsors that we go out and contact, Miller (welding) is a big one!
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Interesting note, tea bottles (gallon ones) will blow out at about 60 psi!
That was loud as hell lol
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Helluva job !
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Looks like there is a decent amount of room in the "engine compartment"
after it's all built for your class.....
1)pull a wrecked liter bike motor
2)Install said motor
3)?????????
4)Profit
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5)spend profits on more rear tires.
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Lol, it stays at school.
Sent from the future. Or my phone, who knows.
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Interesting note, tea bottles (gallon ones) will blow out at about 60 psi!
That was loud as hell lol
And the main reason why they no longer allow glass ones!
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I broke a car wash with the BMW today. First time going, also the last, because they banned me.
Win!
I just avoid car washes now. When I first got the car at stock ride height, there were a few that wouldn't let me in.
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How in the world did you manage that. I don't get how a car wash is breakable
Was it the Octopus on Odana? My parents used to go there all the time, hope they still have the parrots!
Octopus on Park St.! First and last time going there last time.
Jeff, I'll draw you a diagram!
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This. The whole operation came to a grinding halt.
Ha so you mean to tell me that your car was to low for the car wash and destroyed the whole right side or the machine?
You should go back to the car wash and if they don't let you get a car was tel they are bring unreasonable and a little raciest.
1976 530i e12
1990 325ix e30
1992 325i e36
1995 740il e38
2001 330xi e46
^More to come
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