Well, me and about 5 other guys at school decided that we wanted to make an electric vehicle. We became a "club" so we could use the plastics lab and the school will give us $1500 a year.
We had all of the carbon fiber, monkey tape, vacuum bags, epoxy etc. donated from a local company, so we still have quite a bit of money left for the actual operational parts of the car.
Here is the mold that we made still sitting in the paint booth:
Here is a side shot of the body pieces still sitting there:
Here's one from the front:
You can see how long it is, and how low it sits to the ground. The pieces really haven't been cleaned since coming out of the mold, so you can see the PVA (release agent) still all over the outside of it. The body is in three pieces, the nose, the mid-section, the small cock pit window thingy and the back piece. Only the middle section will be structural. The rest will be dealt with bulkheads. These are our first try at CF, but they came out pretty well considering.
I really wanted to deal with the suspension, so I have simply taken over that portion of the project. The front should present the most difficult task, but it should be fun. The car should be able to travel about 55-65 mph, but will not handle turns well at all. The whole point is to see how far the car can travel in an hour on two car batteries.
And yeah, I will try to get my hands on any spare fiber we have so I can make something for myself.
And after all of that, we must celebrate:
We had all of the carbon fiber, monkey tape, vacuum bags, epoxy etc. donated from a local company, so we still have quite a bit of money left for the actual operational parts of the car.
Here is the mold that we made still sitting in the paint booth:
Here is a side shot of the body pieces still sitting there:
Here's one from the front:
You can see how long it is, and how low it sits to the ground. The pieces really haven't been cleaned since coming out of the mold, so you can see the PVA (release agent) still all over the outside of it. The body is in three pieces, the nose, the mid-section, the small cock pit window thingy and the back piece. Only the middle section will be structural. The rest will be dealt with bulkheads. These are our first try at CF, but they came out pretty well considering.
I really wanted to deal with the suspension, so I have simply taken over that portion of the project. The front should present the most difficult task, but it should be fun. The car should be able to travel about 55-65 mph, but will not handle turns well at all. The whole point is to see how far the car can travel in an hour on two car batteries.
And yeah, I will try to get my hands on any spare fiber we have so I can make something for myself.
And after all of that, we must celebrate:
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