2004 Texas A&m Fsae Update
03-23-2004, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Cheers!' date='Mar 23 2004, 10:10 AM
it is still snowing outside... news says expect 1/2 inch of snow overnight. So there is no real point in finishing it so soon anwaysys... can't drive in the snow.
03-23-2004, 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by RX7Aggie' date='Mar 23 2004, 11:12 AM
no snow tires? 
we could, the bolt pattern is 4x100
so we need to find a honda civic with snow tires.
=)
then we will actually have ground clearence.
We took the minibaja car out for some snow jumping on lake ontario the other day
see here
http://engsoc.queensu.ca/minibaja/cars/2003/car2003.htm
03-23-2004, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by RX7Aggie' date='Mar 23 2004, 07:26 AM
that's odd, because the price we paid was what Fox charges the dealer, not a discount to us. we still went to through the middle man, only he gave them to us at his cost, plus shipping and credit charges.
still, we got it all for like $970 for 4 shox, shipping, and credit charges.
i dont see why fox charged yall so much.
still, we got it all for like $970 for 4 shox, shipping, and credit charges.
i dont see why fox charged yall so much.
Mark
03-23-2004, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by inanimate_object' date='Mar 23 2004, 01:38 PM
Did you guy's ever think of using bike shocks? A lot of them have separate adjusting for compression and rebound, and the damper and spring rates woud be close to what youre looking for, or if you mount them inboard, thats not a problem. I'd imagine that even if they had to be resprung and/or revalved it would still cost less than that!. Just an idea (probably already thought of)
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Spring rates offered from 200 to 550 lb/inch.
They are 272 grams in weight, much lighter then any motorcycle/atv/snow molbile shock/spring package.
03-23-2004, 09:34 PM
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Look into this school. Click on Phase 1 or 2 and a scheadule will show to the left. Worth every penny. It trimmed 2 seconds off of my times everyone thought I made a major change to my car.
http://www.autocross.com/evolution/top.shtml
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03-23-2004, 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by inanimate_object' date='Mar 23 2004, 12:38 PM
Did you guy's ever think of using bike shocks? A lot of them have separate adjusting for compression and rebound, and the damper and spring rates woud be close to what youre looking for, or if you mount them inboard, thats not a problem. I'd imagine that even if they had to be resprung and/or revalved it would still cost less than that!. Just an idea (probably already thought of)
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i looked into using racing scooter shocks, but never got enough info on them. they seemed heaver than the shocks we use, and not much cheaper, and less adjustment.
when it all came down to it, the best ones were:
risse jupiter 5
progressive 5th element
fox vanilla rc
mountino (or something like that)
03-24-2004, 12:21 AM
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on a side note, our engine TEC3, my techedge wideband o2, and the school's dynomachine was under 5 feet of water today as a highpressure pipe in the basement of the mechanical engineering building where the dyno room is burst.