DelSolSweetie Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Most of the members drive me crazy.. so for your amusement I shall provide stories and quotes (quotes may not be real quotes and summarized explanations).. you must feel sorry for me having to deal with this for 6 more weeks though.. i shall give them nicknames so as not to breech anyones privacy lol Some of my favorites so far: jersey: "I blew up my 400 horsepower honda that was never dynoed because the dash light was out" (put a hole in his block.. also said he had to check oil over X amount of miles.. quite often.. says its because hondas "just burn oil" nascar: "my dad is around stock cars.. I know racing and cars. I want to work for a race team" me: "my slave cylinder might be leaking" nascar: "I dont know what a slave cylinder is" emo: "what color are you painting the car" me: "black.. like the team decided months ago" emo: its not really your choice me: you are the first one who wanted it matte black emo: SO! me: why are you guys so worried about rotational weight.. have you considered your sprung and unsprung weight? them: "what" them: "we need 12 inches of clearance now!" me: "car was designed for 10 inches in the front..more then enough.. most teams are running 10 OR LESS" them: "12!!" me: "so you guys want to raise the center of gravity and add to body roll and hurt handling" them: "it wont do that" jersey: "I'm the best driver eva" me: "so are you coming to the track this weekend?" jersey: "no i cant afford it and i need my oil changed" couple days later: "I got another speeding ticket today" nascar: "There should be a thing on the drivers license that says if your allowed to drive drunk" me: "moron" nascar: "I can hold my alcohol!" me: "moron" nascar: "cops are buttheads.. giving out DUI's and ruining lives" me: "dont drink and drive" nascar: "I can hold my alcohol!" me: "get a cab" nascar: "I cant afford a cab" me: "if you cant afford a cab then you shouldnt be wasting money on beer" other: "we should make the rotating mount for the a-arm square" me: "what" jersey: "we need to hoist the car up at least 6 foot with someone in it and drop it" me: "no" should have said: me: "you ever break your tailbone?" jersey: "no" me: "you can be in the car when we test it" thats a very small sample of what happens everyday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 That would be fun... im not good at holding my tounge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 they get pretty pissed off at me.. i think if I wasn't female it wouldnt be so bad me: "nascar doesnt know what hes doing so he needs me or so and so here before anyone tries to mount the a-arms" emo: "yah cause you just know more then everyone" me: "when it comes to making sure the camber, caster, shock angle, and ride height is correct yes" emo: "that stuff doesnt matter" me: "what" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 For dirt at 20mph... i would eye ball it and call it good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgogo Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 and you all wonder why I hate working with engineers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 For dirt at 20mph... i would eye ball it and call it good speaking its an ENGINEERING competition.. you shouldnt do that.. because the teams who actually do think about the stuff and not 'eyeball' it kill everyone else and you all wonder why I hate working with engineers. cause they are f'in retarded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Just sleep with a judge and youll win. Haha. I guess if hours put in the scheme, why not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgogo Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Exactly sarah, about 99% of the engineers i have met either WAY over engineer or WAY under engineer. That and 99.9% of them couldnt find their ass from a hole in the ground. I love it when they tell you in the PS specs to buck a rivet into a C channel..... that has already been closed by a fascia plate onto the skin of an aircraft. And when you ask them how you are supposed to magicly insert a bucking bar into a completely closed off area they give you that look like "um... a what? I thought you just hit the rivet, i didnt know you needed a bucking bar to expand the shank end. DERP" Or my personal favorite, FRENCH ENGINEERS! They wanted to install 2 75 gallon internal fuel tanks into a search and rescue sikorsky s-92. Thats cool, no biggie. We install it, then for the tank vent he wants to run a NON conductive hose from the ALUMINUM tanks to the ALUMINUM skin. Now lets think about this Massive rotor spining in the air, alot of air brushing against a NON grounded airframe. A bunch of fluid SLOSHING around inside an alumiunum fuel tank. With a 4" gap between them, filled with highly explosive fuel vapor. Static discharge anyone?! Yeah we ran braided steel hose for the vent, then decided to do a little mock up of what would happen if he did it his way in the hangar with a paint bucket, some pvc hose, and a sheet of aluminum, then introduced a static charge to the apparatus... can you imagine what happened next. If not ill give you a hint He needed new underwear, and he stunk for the rest of the day like digested french food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 so hopefully the following will make everyone feel better about themselves: exhibit A of the stupidity I deal with: Car nose dives.. the team does not believes this has nothing to do with suspension and slowing the rebound in the rear will help nothing at all their solution: buy a wing from a stock car (or something like that). They claim it has enough engineering behind it that it has to work on a mini baja.. because things like what car its on and velocity have nothing to do with aerodynamics exhibit B: i was told that ABS did not stop your brakes from locking up.. because if you hit the brakes hard enough the friction overcomes the ABS.. and thats why people squeal tires when they get in wrecks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airjordan223 Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 oh i have some fun stories... to girl who has done nothing all year and still doesnt know how our design works: "can you take this apart and weigh each component and write that down" "yeah is there a weighing machine?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 they are such fracking buttheads i texted them at like 9-10 in the morning and asked when they were going to the shop.. THEY have the key to the shop.. i live an hour away.. i can't just drive up there and HOPE they are up there.. so the one guy is being a fracking douche bag and all 'i dont have time to tell people who were not here when we'll be here' this is the same guy who wants to work on a RACE team and doesnt know what a slave cylinder or ABS is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Seb, us cars are like russian people, big as frack, and strong as frack... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Russian chicks are bangin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 im trying to work for a Japanese company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 What happens when you have a crapty rear suspension design AND let people who are not the best at driving drive: (kept flipping.. probably mainly due to way to narrow of rear track width.. somehow did that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 not enough ducktape... if you layer it, it works as a bump stop... ahahhahahaha!!! and where are the springs? torsion bar maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 look closer the springs were on there until they literally pulled the shocks apart the bottom half is still attached to the bottom mount (right about the axle).. the top half of them are attached as well (not in the picture) but they defiantly somehow ripped them apart.. said it happened while it was rolling looked like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 ok, i can see now. i was having trouble seeings what actually happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgogo Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 still trying to figure out why your running a dual suspension set up on a fixed axle. You should have had them just triangulate the rear suspension and run a single coil over. Also I belive I said a few months ago that rear track was too narrow. But then again what do I know, never went to school for engineering, I just build aircraft from raw stock, and rebuild unibody cars. I knows nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 So, the problem cory is everything you work on seats more than one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgogo Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 obviously you forgot how large I really am... and how small a sol is. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 I'm a complete noob at engineering and to me the completely vertical suspension is at odds with the direction of travel given that the front of the trailing arm assembly is hinged and would allow the rear end to flex in an arc, thus putting tremendous lateral pressure on the suspension components. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 the guys on the team may have engineering degrees but that doesnt mean they knew what they were doing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Do you know the reason for doubt shock and not 1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgogo Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 1 word raley.... "nascar" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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