Sunday, February 21, 2010

Week 7 Victories and defeats

Much more progress has been made on the foam. We're close to ready for creating the fiberglass mold off of the foam part.








































We also machined the triangular spline pattern into the front spindles today. Perfect fit!....


















































except our fatal flaw: the bolt holes are the wrong spacing. The brake disks can't mount to these properly. This might set us back a couple of weeks.

-Verent

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought the Urban Concept rules required 4 wheels, why are you building a 3 wheeled car?

Bob Somers said...

It is a four-wheeled vehicle. What made you think it only had three?

Anonymous said...

FYI, you got a mention over at Wired. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/take-that-chevy-volt-cal-poly-car-gets-27523-mpg/

Congrats,
ME '02