Thursday, January 28, 2010

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.

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