hmmm interesting, is there a minimum weight requirement, just thinking if you make it lighter you can always adjust weight around to suit different drivers.
No lower weight limit, our car is a tank, being our 1st we're after reliability and setting up the team. About 250Kg without driver, or twice as heavy as ze Germans and their multi million Audi sponsorship.
You can have any kind of boost you like with the same restrictor too, as long as you adapted the engine for boost yourself. Up to 610cc allowed, but a lot of people use a 400cc single cylinder for lightness.
Also tell your guys to go on a diet, its the easiest way to reduce weight and you will see that on the stop clock, you want people to have just enough strength to complete the task so theres a fair bit ill bet you can slim them down.
We've been trying, but we all went to Fat Shiraz for a cooked brekky this morning. We plan to use karting to decide the drivers, so lightness will be key to winning that. I need to pick up my game a bit, but I might get onto the list as a wildcard due to my mechanical sympathy.
Edit: I'm 10.5 stone by the way, but 6 foot on the nail makes it a close call to fit.
Also i see double wishbones all around, good choice, will hopefully help in the handling, if its a very tight and twisty track put more weight at the front, soften the front suspension up a bit and run some more camber, a good driver will be able to make use of the pointy front end and correct a little oversteer, and wheelspin wont be to bad in a restricted engine with that amount of rubber on the back.
There's plenty of power to drift them, about 80bhp. It would be nice if our design featured some caster, we've managed to get 2 degreess in by adjusting the top wishbones. The best designs have pull rods all round with low mounted springs.
If the circuit a series of high speed corners then take some front camber out and adjust the weight a little to the rear, this will give the car a higher stability....yes it wont be the perfect balance but we cant assume one of you will be able to find that fine limit and may end up being slower, so having a slight understeer means you will be able to keep your foot planted and actually increase your speed.
No such thing as high speed, avg laps will be 40mph for a fast car. Judges frown at wings.
One thing your CAD guy has potentially missed out on is a diffuser, you have an upturned exhaust setup so its crying out for one, you could make it very large aswell as you shouldnt need to have much suspension travel on the rear end so that wont limit you.
Again, not going to ever go that fast.
Sorry to sound like im trying to tell you how to suck eggs but im just typing whats entering my mind
We love to hear from anyone with input, and we'll give advice freely where we can. We're not into hiding the design behind a wall of mechanics.
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