Power Drive. 4th hour

January Documentation

Bellevue West High School Power Drive I

Tyler, Max, Taylor, and Jamal had the seat belt mount cut out and made for the car. They supervised the welds for the seat holsters and where they should be placed. All of us helped to create the five seat belt mounts. Also these students have been working on the roll bars from the beginning. They worked with the positioning and making of all roll bar supports. To make them they cut conduit at 40” long and had to bend them at a 25 degree angle.

These students also started rebuilding the motor mount but then ended up using one of the old one’s Mr. Nadgewick had from one of the older cars. Taylor than had to grind down both sides of the round tubing so it would easily slide in between where the other axle was located. Taylor and Luke started working on the front and rear axle which was cut out of 1” square tubing Currently they attached to the car they noticed that one of the angles was wrong and are currently in the process of fixing the angel.

Two Students Philip Caine and Jacob Eggert have been working on the nose piece in the front of the car. They have measured pieces of conduit to fit the nose then cut the pieces and bent them to fight the right dimensions. They sanded down around the area so they could be welded on to the car Luke and Mark. . Jamal and John helped get the sheet metal on to the nose of the car. Then they cut the sheet metal to size so they could be put on the car.

Four Students Kc, Tyler, Dan and Zach had made four small 1” round tubing and grinded down both ends to look like a half moon and then welded the tubing to both petal assemblies and then welded it to the car by Mark.

Power Drive. 1st hour

In the month of January the Bellevue West Power Drive Team has successfully completed the suspension, front axle, swing arm, body supports, nose, and put the seat belt in.
The suspension was done by Austin and Juan. They took all the measurements and began to cut and grind down the pieces for the shock. There are supports on the shock connected to the back of the roll cage.
For the front suspension Kaleb, Dylan, and myself (Ashlee) cut pieces of 1" tubing, one piece was 12" two other pieces were 9". On the 9" pieces we cut 30 degree angles on both sides. We had Brian our main welder weld them together. We than cut a 2" slot into the floor of our car so that we could have Brian weld our front axle to the frame of our car.
Brian was working on our swing arm he got that welded on the car about a week ago. The back axle is about 20" long and has two center supports that are about 6" long.
Manny has been working on body supports they are about 9" long curved pieces and they were welded onto the car where the center supports of the frame are.
The nose of our car was made by Nik, Roger, Rocky, Kieth, and Sean they took several pieces of styrofoam that sits about 16" tall and they hot glued them together. After doing that, they formed a shape that looks like the top of an egg. They than fitted it onto the front of the car and started to put drywall mud over the styrofoam to have a better surface to put the carbon fiber on.
Manny and Matt put a five-point safety harness in.