Week 5

As this is the 5th year that the ASU team will participate in the Mini Baja SAE race there are a lot of parts on the different cars that are reusable and make life easier. Our job this week was to strip the previous car and scrap it and re-use it for parts. This was very tedious work as we had to remove all the suspension, engine, brakes and brake lines, and everything else that could be taken out. We first removed the a- arm suspension which hold the tires on. These metal parts would be scraped and put into storage. Then we removed the brake lines which would be reused on the new car because they were already calibrated to roughly where they would need to be. Next we had to take off all the previous sheet metal and take apart all the rivets. Some of the sheet metal would be reused while other would be scraped because it was too damaged to be reused. The hardest part by far was taking out the engine. The engine was tricky because of all the little nuances that were attached to it. The engine would be put aside for another time. After the old vehicle was completely scraped we assessed what could be used and what couldn't. Then we attached the brake and brake lines to the new car. This week a lot of progress on the car was made and the car can be run. Although this car is almost finished this will not be the car that we will be racing. This car is the test car where all the flaws will hopefully be sorted out. Now the team must start to build a new frame for the actual car. Next week we hope to have the frame built for the new car,