Intro to Racecar Engineering: 18 Team Do’s
Smitty shares team do’s.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 17 Team Don’ts
Smitty shares team don’ts.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 16 Performance Ideals
Smitty discusses performance ideals and overall principles such as weight distribution, body shape, and safety.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 15 Electronic Fuel Injection Systems
Smitty shares information regarding electronic fuel injection systems.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 14 CV Transmissions
Smitty describes continuously variable transmissions. This is the fourteenth video in a series developed for UCI’s racecar engineering program.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 13 Tires
Smitty shares tips of the trade regarding tires.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 12 Toe and Camber
Smitty describes the importance of the toe and camber.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 11 King Pin Inclination
Smitty describes king pin inclination. This is the eleventh in the video series developed for UCI’s racecar engineering program. (Smitty and the Professor series)
Superluminal Chapter 5
David finds Qishu to be more than he expected in Chapter 5 of R. W. Frost’s Superluminal.
Rectilinear Six-Bar (Candy Coating Linkage)
Jeff Glabe designed this six-bar linkage to move through six task positions while maintaining a parallel orientation. This required the calculation of 55,000 linkages to find 26 that work. This one has the additional feature that it is operated by a rotating crank (the red link). The video is a collaboration of Jeff Glabe and Benjamin Liu.