All of our members gave short presentations about their projects and the state of their designs in front of the entire team, advisors, and alumni.

 

Dom and Ed designed our new shifting system on a VERY early version of SolidWorks.

Kevin discusses the FEA of our differential mounts.

Caroline talks about her brake rotor design.

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Frame Jig Assembly

Staying at school a week into Winter Break? Gotta build a racecar! Watch our frame jig come together in 3 minutes.

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Our new frame tubes have arrived! Cut, coped, and ready for welding.  Welcome to the world’s most awesome K’Nex project!

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In our search for a new LT-R450 engine, we found the SAME ATV that our original engine came from. Needless to say, we didn’t waste any time in getting it! Picked it up today and brought it to the shop. Our engine team will start disassembling the quad this weekend. The result will be a dedicated engine for our new engine dyno, which will allow us to tune and test at the same time.

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Come see NFR in the homecoming parade on Sheridan Road at 6:30 tonight!  We’ll be there with last year’s car and our banner.

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Northwestern Formula Racing is registered as team #075!

Mark your calendars for May 9-12.  We can’t wait to bring a new car up to race and compete with hundreds of like-minded students!

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Thank you to those of you who managed to find us at the activities fair! We are so excited to meet Northwestern’s next batch of automotive design enthusiasts. Hopefully you can join us at our first two events for new members!

Vehicle Team Kick-off Meeting (Formula, Baja, and Solar)
Wednesday, Sept 21 7:00 PM
L211 (second floor of tech)

First Meeting for Formula and Baja
Saturday, Sept 24 1:00 PM
Ford Prototyping Lab

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Our team would like to thank our newest sponsor, Miller Electric Mfg. Co.  for their generous donation of safety gear (shown above) as well as a Diversion 180 TIG welder.  We’re proud to weld in Miller gear and excited to show off our portable welder at future competitions!  Find out more about Miller at http://www.millerwelds.com

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Here is the most recent NFR newsletter that covers the end of the 2011 build cycle, unveiling, and competition.  Click on the link below to download the PDF.

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Keep checking back for more updates as we kick off the 2011-2012 school year!

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Here we are waiting on line for Tech Inspection! We made it through all 3 parts of Tech and completed all of our static events (Cost, Presentation, Design) Thursday, and were ready to go for the dynamic events Friday.

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