Day 6 which is technically day 2 of the competition consists of both the static and technical inspection. Static events consists of cost event, marketing presentation and the dreaded design event.
Technical inspection is a 3 part exercise to determine if the car is safe to run consisting of scrutineering, tilt test to determine if the car will leak fluids as well as its stability, and noise and brake test.
Overall today is one of the most important days of the competition as if you cant pass technical inspection you can not run the car.
6:00am Wake up
After only a couple of hours of sleep, we slowly rose out of bed or for some from the dead and got ready for the second day of competition. Luckily we had pack the trailer up last night
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| Above: CMT-12 on the trailer roller stands |
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| Above: CMT-12 in the trailer |
We had the first spot in scrutineering this morning, which we just made it to this morning. To make the process of scrutineering easier, they have split up certain components and had them in different stands. The main scrutineering such as checking the car over for rules compliance is conducted in the original technical inspection bays however the checking of race gear and driver egress checks are now conducted in a separate area. This should allow for a slightly quicker technical inspection time.
Scrutineering took just an hour and unfortunately we had 6 small things to fix up, mainly surrounding securing the battery, securing the firewall with Tar Tape, drilling a holes in the shoulder harness bar. Before we fixed up those things we stopped off at the race gear check and driver egress check are. Chris headed off, with Ryan to get the Tar Tape as requested by the scrutineers.
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| Above: CMT-12 in scrutineering (Technical Inspection) |
Race ear was all compliant next thing checked was driver egress, driver egress checks to see if a driver can get out of the car when fully suited up and strapped into the car in under 5 seconds. Wes being our tallest driver suited up and had a shot at getting out of the car in under 5 seconds, unfortunately he took over 5 seconds to get out of the car, which upon further investigation was put down to the wrist restraints being put on incorrectly, his next attempt took him 3 seconds.
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| Above: Wes in the driver seat getting ready for driver egress |
As per the competition rules they can check as many drivers as they feel like for driver egress and they chose Norbert. Unfortunately Norbert was struggling with getting out of the car and he took a couple of attempts to get out however he did make it just with a 5 second egress.
The car was then taken back to the pit bay.
10:00am Cost Event
Cost event consists of discussing the cost report with the judges to clarify any questions that they may have about the cost report, as well as a cost event, there is a cost task where the SAE will provide an area on the car were we need to find cost savings and it is up to us to determine how much we can save and to prove it.
This year, our fearless leader Geisler is once again taking the reigns for cost event with Norbert doing the cost task. Geisler went very well as combating all the questions thrown at him from the judges. Norbert was next up and conducted the cost task very professionally. With a very good performance from both.
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| Above: Cost Event, with Geisler explaining how we costed the car |
Next stop back to the pit bay to fix the car up for rescrutineering!
10:30am Rescrutineering
Once the car got back to the pit bay, the team got straight back to work fixing up the car. As one of the things to fix up on the car had been to effectively glue in the firewall before it was glued in we got the position check by the technical inspection chief, Chris, it took quite some time to track down Chris however we eventually found him and he was happy with the position of the firewall. Then we headed off to the re inspection tent and we passed scrutineering - being the fourth team through to pass scrutineering.
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| Above: CMT-12 with our first sticker, only two more to collect |
Next stop fueling and tilt test, however we first had to wake up Wes who had taken a quick nap.
11:00 Tilt Test
For tilt test the car needs to be full of fluids, the purpose of tilt test is to determine if the car will leak fluids by tilting the car 45degrees, as well as checking the stability of the car by tilting the car to 60 degrees which is to represent cornering at 1.6g's.
Tilt test went smoothly with no leaks and no wheels lifting off the table. Unfortunately due to air bubbles in fuel tank, the fuel level had dropped and the inspectors were slightly concerned that the fuel tank had leaked. So to satisfy the scrutineers that the fuel tank hadn't leaked we dropped the floor, there was no leak and they were happy and passed us for tilt test.
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| Above: CMT-12 with 2 stickers on it one more to collect and we have the complete set |
11:50am Presentation Event
The marketing presentation event consists of presenting a business case to a panel of prospective car company's who would you would like to invest in your idea. Geisler for the second year in a row was delegated the task of performing this static event, with Penna also being involved for technical support. The event went very well.
12:00pm Noise and Brake Test
The noise test and brake test is the final component of technical inspection, with the noise test making sure that the noise produced from the exhaust is within an acceptable level, and the brake test ensures that the brake system wont fail in an emergency.
After the car completed tilt test, we raced off to noise and brake test, with ECU just beating us there to become the first car to complete all components of technical inspection.
After we warmed up the car we took the car up to the 11,500 rpm and the noise from the exhaust measured 103dB. Well done Penna for designing and manufacturing the exhaust to be noise compliant.
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| Above: Noise Test with Wes in the car |
Wes then conducted the brake test which involved getting the car up to speed and slamming on the brakes with the objective to lock up all four wheels, which we successfully completed.
CMT was through all technical inspection components by 1:00pm on Friday a new record for us. Also we are the second car to complete all components of technical inspection
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| Above: CMT-12 the third and last sticker - the technical inspection set is complete |
Next off the dreaded design event.
Straight from noise and brake test we had to go to the design event, with the car being weighed. This year the car had lost some weight upon last years are to weigh 244kg without the 70kg driver, and 316kg with the 70kg driver.
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| Above: The car being weighed |
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| Above: Design Event |
Design event went well, and afterwards the car rolled back towards the pits and had a well deserved break.
The team focused on getting the car ready for dynamic events. Throughout the afternoon the team returned back to Kimgara Park for some well deserved sleep.
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