Lowering the car
Posted on 2009-09-01 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 In order to enhance the performance of the underbody, we decided to lower ET2ev: now it's just a few microns above the ground. |
The truth is 3 flat tyres out of 4!
Posted on 2009-09-01 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 The way we lowered the car to enhance the underbody efficiency is very simple: we asked our drivers to power slide at the end of our test session until they managed to flatten three tyres. Not bad for a car with only four tyres! |
Some serious drifting
Posted on 2009-09-01 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 Wanna see some serious drifting? Just ask Tommaso and Andrea to burn out a set of tyres. Here is Andrea drifting with one hand and here is T... [Read all] |
It is only a test!
Posted on 2009-08-07 by Massimo Guiggiani (Faculty advisor)
 Wait...don't get too excited...the real stuff is tomorrow... |
Do you like my new tatoo?
Posted on 2009-08-07 by Massimo Guiggiani (Faculty advisor)
 Working 4 days till 4 in the morning for 4 small stickers... Now we are ready for the race... |
Smile everybody!
Posted on 2009-08-07 by Massimo Guiggiani (Faculty advisor)
 The engineering design event and the cost event are over... |
Fuel???
Posted on 2009-08-07 by Massimo Guiggiani (Faculty advisor)
 Fuel energy not only for the car!! |
New shoes
Posted on 2009-08-01 by Francesco Lenzi (Team co-captain)
 ET2ev is ready for a new set of Dunlop tyres. All right then, let's test them! |
Test! Test!! Test!!!
Posted on 2009-08-01 by Francesco Lenzi (Team co-captain)
 We have been testing the car continuously in the last weeks. Time's never enough and testing is even funnier than before... but now we have to stop for a couple of days to refine ET2ev and check everything for the next race in Hockenheim... |
New tires to "bite" the road
Posted on 2009-07-27 by Riccardo Bartolozzi (Suspensions team leader)
.jpg) ET2ev was for the first time equipped with the new Dunlop tires and the time in the acceleration test was lowered of about 0,2 seconds: what a result! But there's still much to do... |
Killing a tyre
Posted on 2009-07-23 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 Killing a tyre during the tests is quite easy: you just need to keep going until it gets flat. This is exactly what happened twice in the past couple of days. |
Dressing like a nun
Posted on 2009-07-23 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 ET2ev's acceleration is so wild, we decided to dress it like a nun and try to keep it calm. I think this is not going to work. |
How much camber do you want?
Posted on 2009-07-22 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 Thanks to our new uprights, we are able to change the camber setting in a few seconds (you can also watch a video about it). Time to play with it! |
Uprights with grilled bearings
Posted on 2009-07-15 by Riccardo Bartolozzi (Suspensions team leader)
 (*there might be frozen hubs)
In order to assemble the wheel bearings, We cooked the uprights and the inner rings of the bearings and at the same time we froze the hubs and the outer rings of the bearings. Everything went perfect and the new wheel ... [Read all] |
Sausages, Sangiovese and ET2ev
Posted on 2009-07-13 by Riccardo Bartolozzi (Suspensions team leader)
 We finished to build ET2ev a few hours before the rollout and this has been possible only because of the energy of grilled sausages and Sangiovese. E-Team grilled just behind our workspace in the garden of Engineering Faculty and tested the cooking o... [Read all] |
Dampers aren't a mistery anymore
Posted on 2009-07-11 by Riccardo Bartolozzi (Suspensions team leader)
 We got them! The suspension and dynamics team measured the damper characteristics by RD Suspension in Pistoia. We are now able to set the suspension in a better to way and we can improve our vehicle dynamics simulations with more realistic car models... [Read all] |
We are not as good reporters as we are engineers
Posted on 2009-07-10 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 Although a lot of exciting things are happening in our workshop, we are so busy building ET2ev that we don't actually have time to report it with the news. I promise you that from tomorrow we will try to keep you as updated as possible. The most exci... [Read all] |
Going to the tailor...
Posted on 2009-07-04 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 The ET2ev frame is sitting in our workshop, dying to get dressed. I think the tailors are coming soon with a wonderful fiberglass body... |
...to get dressed!
Posted on 2009-07-04 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 After a few weeks of hard work, the ET2ev fiberglass body is finally ready. Our tailors are now working to mount it on the frame. It already looks very good! |
E-Team running behind Rennteam Stuttgart
Posted on 2009-07-03 by Riccardo Bartolozzi (Suspensions team leader)
 Antonio Sponziello and me visited the world champion FSAE team. Their team captain answered our questions for a long time and let us watching the team working on the car. We wrote a brief report on this visit and we hope the information we got can be... [Read all] |
New tires have arrived!
Posted on 2009-07-03 by Riccardo Bartolozzi (Suspensions team leader)
 Our new Dunlop tires for the 2009 season are now in the E-Team home. Thanks to our sponsor Dunlop, we received two slick sets and one rain set (this time it is really rain...). We are now waiting to test them. |
A light at the end of the (underbody) tunnel
Posted on 2009-06-27 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
 The rear part of the underbody with two tunnel is quite ready.
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HOODini
Posted on 2009-06-26 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
 Magically from a several and simple piece of polystyrene a hood will be soon...
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That's hot!
Posted on 2009-06-22 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
 Hot days, hot resin to obtain a hot lap.
In the image some pics from the production of underbody tunnel.
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Putting pressure
Posted on 2009-06-15 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
 Cp distribution over the frontal area of ET2ev.
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Resin forever
Posted on 2009-06-15 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
 The first selfmade composite part of ET2ev.
Glassfiber and epoxy resin.
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Looking for balance
Posted on 2009-06-13 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
 How can you measure the right balance of resin without a precision scale?
Easily with a little bit of fantasy, some plastic glasses, thread, a bar and a lot of nuts.
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Cutting, sewing, and stitching like tailors
Posted on 2009-06-12 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 With a lot of cutting and welding, the frame of ET2ev is coming to life really fast. The front of the frame is almost ready. Soon enough we will start painting it back in red. |
The apprentice welder
Posted on 2009-06-10 by Gabriele Melani (Chassis team leader)
 Just today the work on the ET2ev chassis has started.
In the next days some pictures will follow, in order to describe the welder's work... |
Killing an ETx to make another one
Posted on 2009-06-10 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 It's always hard to see a piece of engineering to be cut in halves but sometimes it is for a greater good. In this case ET1 is being cut to build ET2ev. |
A pallet, a pallet, my kingdom for a pallet
Posted on 2009-06-08 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
 An invaluable building material: pallet!
After destroying forests, humans retrieve wood from pallets stolen at supermarket waste areas.
Then they starting to build moulds and supports. |
I was a Remington
Posted on 2009-06-08 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
 I was a Remington typewriter gear.
Now I'm an efficient mill tool used to remove foam materials.
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Caught in the web
Posted on 2009-06-01 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
 ET2ev is going to be catched in the web by SpiderCFDmen: the clash of vortex is starting.
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Pedals, master cylinders, seegers, etc.
Posted on 2009-05-31 by Gabriele Melani (Chassis team leader)
 After 12 or 13 different layouts, the new pedal arrangement is defined and verified. You can see it in the picture...
I think that Lorenzo (omofreni) starts to hate me... |
A new steering rack for ET2ev
Posted on 2009-05-30 by Riccardo Bartolozzi (Suspensions team leader)
 After several months we spent searching and evaluating many solutions, we decided for the Titan fixed centre steering rack. Machining has just begun; it is expected to be in our garage in about two weeks. |
Time for bodybuilding with steroids
Posted on 2009-05-29 by Lapo Filippo Mori (Team captain)
 Luca Sciurti, the team leader of E-Team style department, is working hard to give ET2ev a wonderful body. We can't wait to see it for real. |
ET2ev can now stand on its own... uprights
Posted on 2009-05-29 by Riccardo Bartolozzi (Suspensions team leader)
 The new uprights are finally designed and their production will start in the next days. Home made hubs (bye bye Panda...), high precision wheel bearings and a quick camber setting method are the main new features of these crucial car components. Pics... [Read all] |
Wheel angles: no more making the sign of the cross
Posted on 2009-05-29 by Riccardo Bartolozzi (Suspensions team leader)
 Road tests are not that far-off for the ET2ev and the team needs an accurate measurement system for camber and toe angles. Antonio Serluca has just joined the team to begin this work. The system is now under development following the idea of a cross-... [Read all] |
Starting the handwork
Posted on 2009-05-17 by Lorenzo Pessa (Aerodynamics team leader)
It's time to leave the CAD and to start to build the new ET2ev body in fiber glass and epoxy resin.
Waiting the nose and sidepods tubs, the underbody and two back panels are parts that will be created first.
The pictures will be soon online. |
No comparison!
Posted on 2009-04-19 by Francesco Lenzi (Team co-captain)
 Luca has done an excellent job! Now the ET2ev looks pretty much better than ever!! See the latest ET2ev rendering... |
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