OT!

As the chassis is the highest priority at the moment, every team member worked together to manafacture the jigs for the chassis. Plenty of sawing and drawing to ensure every part of the chassis fits precisely.

A hole for the driver to sit inside...

Fixing the chassis parts position by nailing small blocks of woods to hold the parts in place

Kee Chean marking the holes to be drilled on the engine holder bracket

Finalising the position of driver's seat

Something definitely did scared Jerard.

Lim Kee Chean fooling around. The devil.

Makan makan makan!

There's always a group picture no matter where we are

Back to work after dinner!

Sam is very cheerful despite the fact that we have to OT a few days.

Workshop Overdrive #3

After meeting up with the welder on Sunday, it seems like our mechanical workshop does not seem to have the equipment that meets the welder's requirement. Therefore, we have to bring the parts of aluminium chassis to the welder's shop.
Day 3 of workshop resumes with more grinding, hammering, bending, and burning. Well, most of the time it's hammering. The chassis sub-team is making immense progress and they expect the chasis to be completed by the end of this week. Great job! Meanwhile, the engine sub-team isn't that far off with the KERS, engine mounting, and engine flywheel being fabricated.

The sponsors representatives came over today to have a look at our progress today but unfortunately, I did not manage to snap a picture. Was busy grinding the metal. Haha...

Fixing the gear changing lever to the shaft.

Jerard inspecting the wheel bearings. Meticulous job!

Kee Chean double checking the SolidWorks drawing.

A very unconventional way to bend the tube but hey, it works!

It's done. Only waiting for welding...



And this is to support 50kg. Hmm..



Sam giving the spacer some final touches.

This is one half of the KERS system.

"Quickly do it before we get told off!"

Found our solution to the cables holding points

Looks like a ketupat right?

One day we can do it too!

Shell Eco-Marathon winner averages 9737mpg

By Mike Hanlon

Shell Eco-Marathon winner averages 9737mpg

The Shell Eco-Marathon is an annual fuel economy competition held in the UK with competitors ranging from 11 year-old students through to senior university academics and semi professional independent teams.

The rules are simple - build a machine which uses the least fuel possible while averaging averaging more than 15mph around a circuit. Beyond engine efficiency, there are many related design considerations which influence the final fuel economy returned, such as aerodynamics, rolling resistance and driving techniques to achieve the highest.

Last year saw a new world economy record set during the event when Team MicroJoule achieved an average fuel consumption of 10,705 mpg - to put that in perspective, that's the distance from London to Melbourne, Australia on less than one gallon of fuel!

The French team beat their own previous world fuel consumption record by nearly 500mpg, their previous record having been set during the 2001 Eco-Marathon UK.

This year the event was held over two days of intense competition at the Rockingham Motor Speedway, Corby, Northants, and the French Microjoule, team from St Sebastien, again took the top step on the podium with an average fuel consumption of 9737 mpg.

The team won despite many problems over the weekend, suffering a broken chain and then mechanical problems which necessitated an overnight engine rebuild, but they still managed to beat their nearest rival by over 2000mpg.

While the best competitors in the Shell Eco-Marathon continually push the limits of the internal combustion engine, there are many classes and categories which encourage students to put theirknowledge into practice.

Overall results:1st - Microjoule (France): 9737mpg2nd - Team Callo (France): 6952mpg3rd - BSMM (Finland): 5667mpg

Class Awards:Best University - Eco Veiculo (Portugal): 4699mpgBest School - Newland House School (UK): 1645mpgBest UK - Team Green (Bath, UK): 5296mpgBest LPG - Team Green (Bath, UK): 3683mpgBest Hydrogen - PAC Car (Switzerland): 5718mpg

(Taken from http://www.gizmag.com/go/2946/)

Second Draft of Team Logo

Fresh from the oven! The second batch of team logos. Even more choices now. How to choose-lah?

First Draft of Team Logo.

4 team logos. Which one to pick? All of them are just too nice!

Oh, credits to Kee Chean, our Publicity Manager. Thanks!

Workshop Overdrive #2

First and foremost, we (you know who you are) would like to apologize to Mr Wong Hong Mun and our team manager for being late.

So day 2 at workshop resumes day 1 work. This time the progress was a lot faster than day 1, somehow. Moreover, Mr Wong gave us a huge shock when he said one of engine part was missing. Searched up and down, every single corner of the workshop but we couldn't find it. In the end, it was actually sealed up in the plastic bag! Oh well, at least all that searching made Kee Chean do some housekeeping. Now our place is very very neat.

Kee Chean was stressed when he couldn't find it.

"Where is it!"

And we found it in the plastic bag.

Housekeeping time!

 

Team Manager working hard there!

Still sweeping the floor after 10 minutes.

I guess the stress was too much for him? (Kidding!)

Giving the extra hand to help out the others.