Intro to Racecar Engineering: 06 Shock Absorbers
Smitty describes the importance of shock absorbers in suspension design.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 05 Suspension Design
Smitty describes the principles of suspension design.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 04 Chassis Design
Smitty describes the design principles for the chassis of a race car.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 03 Strength and Stiffness
Smitty shows how the geometry and material work together to provide strength and stiffness.
Fabrication: 04 Soldering
Smitty presents the basic techniques of soldering. Every mechanical system includes electronic parts and careful soldering is critical to ensuring things do not come loose in operation.
Fabrication: 03 Hand Tools
This video describes the hand tools important to project engineering. It also has a nicely produced introduction by UCI’s Learning Center.
Fabrication: 02 Advanced MIG Welding
This is the second of a series of videos on fabrication techniques for project engineering. This video focusses on a continuous bead where speed control is critical.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 02 Weight and Balance
In this video, Smitty presents the basic techniques for determining the center of gravity of a racecar. The location of a vehicle’s center of gravity relative to the contact patches of its tires defines the limits of its performance.
Fabrication: 01 Basic MIG Welding
This is the first of a series of videos that provide basic fabrication training for project engineering. This video presents the basic techniques of MIG welding.
Intro to Racecar Engineering: 01 Getting Started
This is the first of a series of videos prepared by Robert “Smitty” Smith and Prof. McCarthy on Racecar Engineering. They were recovered recently and I hope to get them all on-line in the coming weeks.
This first video is an overview of all the topics that will be covered and provides a good introduction of the “down to earth” approach of the series, complete with a few seconds of out-of-sync voice over toward the end. I hope you recognize the importance and intelligence of what seem to be simple ideas.