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  • How do we ensure the 60/40 ratio for weight distribution

    • Solution:

      • Kayla I need help with this

  • Aluminum welding or things that might be challenging shouldn’t be steered away from

    • Solution:

      • Look into what part might be challenging to make or might require aluminum welding and evaluate if the time taken to research and manufacture that is worth the time or would it be better to spend that time on a slightly less efficient part to optimize other parts

  • Factor of Safety

    • Solution:

      • Create a list of what parts need a factor of safety, then you can holistically assign each part an accurate factor.

      • Some of our factors of safety come from regs + real-life conditions

  • Fatigue

    • Solution:

      • Look further into fatigue analysis to understand cycle life

      • Look into aluminum fatigue since it does

  • Shock spring rate

    • Solution:

      • Creating a shock characterization jig using a jig we made last year as a reference to help us find the spring rate

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Steering Specific

  • Evaluate bump steer:

    • Solution:

      • Look into the past and how to improve for the future

      • Talk to suspension about how their systems will work to account for that in the design for steering because steering would be easier to change to account for it rather than suspension

  • Backlash issues with gearbox

    • Solution:

      • Issues that we think might occur with the gearbox of backlash might not be a factor that we need to consider seeing that combustion didn’t have those issues. Talk to the other teams for new designs we might look into like the gearbox

  • If we get to tuning the steering and adding telemetry sensors accounting for rack vs upright

    • Solution:

      • Have a sensor on the upright or the wheel to see the difference between turn of the rack vs the turn of the wheel

  • Tuning the steering:

    • Solution:

      • Look at the track to optimize our steering for the radii on the track race and see how the racing line for us would work vs the optimal steering line for formula cars

      • If we know the road for ASC try to see if we can map out our path for ASC and what turns it would expect us to take

  • Effort to max speed, quantify it:

    • Solution:

      • Need to look into it further on how to quantify it

Unsprung Specific