Professional advice (SPAM)

[rhianna15]

Hey guys, need some professional advice here.

My school is building a Formula SAE race car. We're in the initial stages of planning and design and would like to know if it's worth it to have front and/or read wings on the car.

Here are some specs from the SAE website

Top Speed - Est 115Km/h

Avg Speed - Est 48-57Km/h

Thanks a lot for the help, I'm sure that I'll be picking your brains in the months to come.

[machin]

What did last year's top three cars have?

[Greg Locock]

If you want professional advice does that mean you are paying for it?

[Facts Only]

I dont mean to.sound harsh but isn't the point of FSAE to learn? Get you calculator, reference books and notepad out and have a bash at some sums, then make some drawings/CAD models run some CFD and or dynamic tests and see if you were right.

I suppose the basic answer you need to look for is can the down force you can generate be enough of a benefif to more than cancel the effects of the increased weight and size of the machine.

That's what we had to do back when I did FSAE, it was that or wait for a 33kpbs modem to load ask Jeeves, and Jeeves knew naff all about race car aero!

[Tim.Wright]

I believe its a spam bot re-hashing a question from the dark ages (before Youtube/Facebook) and before wings were cool in FSAE. At that time it wasn't such a stupid question:
http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... 2020#p2020

[Facts Only]

I believe its a spam bot re-hashing a question from the dark ages (before Youtube/Facebook) and before wings were cool in FSAE. At that time it wasn't such a stupid question:
http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... 2020#p2020

2003 Blimey. Back then FSAE cars ran on something called petrol.

I can't really see what these spam bots are for, odd.

[Just_a_fan]

I think the idea is that the spam bot creates a legitimate user account by posting "real" posts. Lots of sites try to control the "old fashioned" method of creating an account, spamming instantly and then leaving. This appears to be a way around that control.

[Tim.Wright]

I think they need to get to a certain number of posts before they are allowed to post links.

Wings were black magic on FSAE cars back then.

For that matter so were carbon monocoques.

[Facts Only]

Wings were black magic on FSAE cars back then.

For that matter so were carbon monocoques.

Ours was made from steel, with a fibreglass (remember that?) body with an engine that got petrol and air through a carburetor and had a lever to change the gears... and it did quite well! The progress in FSAE technology has been imense.