CMT MEASURES UP !

From Joel Cummuskey (the 2010 chassis engineer)


With so much of the car designed on 3D software it is integral that the team has accurate models of essential parts of the car. With the team moving to a brand new engine for 2010 it was essential that an accurate model of the engine could be generated so design on the intake, exhaust, oil systems and chassis could continue.

So, on Wednesday the 24th of March a number of team members went to EL ES DE Engineering in Welshpool to use their FARO arm. The arm allows points in 3D space to be measured to an accuracy of 0.02mm. With the use of the arm and the generous support offered from Dusko Mackoski the team was able to create an extremely accurate model of the engine in a very short space of time.

With the new engine model chassis arrangement, engine mounting and general packaging has now been able to be finalised and the design of the 2010 car can progress towards manufacture.

Thanks to EL ES DE Engineering and Dusko Mackoski for their time and support.

Designs are underway

We are really starting to pick up the pace with designs now and we just thought we'd share a humorous picture from our design office.




Hopefully we will have some solid models to share in coming weeks.

Curtin Motorsport Team - Interview with team members jan 2010

Small video that gives an insight into the team from a few of our members.

Also has some in-car footage.

CMT in the Community News - FEB 2010

Curtin Motorsport Team Steps Into Top Gear

The following is extracted from the artilce published on the Community News Groups website on the 23/Feb/2010

" The Curtin Motorsport Team showed off its student-designed and built racing cars from the past two years at its recent 2010 launch.

The cars were the centrepiece of the evening, during which team members gave presentations about their experiences and where the team was headed this year.

Curtin’s head of mechanical engineering Professor Tony Lucey spoke about the team’s history in front of about 50 sponsors and suppliers from the automotive, manufacturing and engineering industries.

Guests also got to inspect the team’s 2008 and 2009 race cars and speak to the student design engineers and fabrication team.

Team project manager Nathan Staats said having a team set-up helped mechanical and mechatronic engineering students learn by hands-on projects designing and building the cars.

The team’s major focus is competing in the international Formula Society of Automotive Engineers Australasia competition in December, where entrants’ cars are judged on static inspection and engineering design, solo performance trials and high performance track endurance. "

Collie Supersprint

CMT just came back from Collie after competing in the Super Sprint event at the Collie Motorplex Feb 28th. This was round 3 of the 2010 LF Performance Speed Event Series www.speedeventseries.com of which CMT is attempting to compete in as many rounds as possible this year in Class 1A - Outright under 2000cc Open Cars.

The event was run by Motoring South West www.motoringsouthwest.org.au/ The team headed down Saturday afternoon after preparing our race car. We arrived late afternoon and had a chance to mingle with some of the competitors, staying over night at the track.

Sunday started with high hopes to get out on the track. After a small warm up of the engine and a double check that the car was ready to go, we had some problems with the plugs being fouled by too much fuel.

With a quick swap of plugs during the drivers briefing, the car got out on the track for the practice with Errol Hassett behind the wheel. The car wasn't quite getting full throttle so the practice didn't go as well as hoped.

The sprint event sees multiple cars run at the same time and with our car running the competition compliant 20mm air intake restrictor, we knew we would have to keep a watch out for some of the fastest cars, as there were a bunch of GTR Skylines and even a supercharged Hayabusa open wheeler. To try and stay out of their way, we pulled the rear view mirror out of Errol's Magna wagon and fixed it to the side pod of our race car, so that we could keep a look out.

A few changes were made after practice to give the car full throttle and Micheal Holland, one of our university technicians, jumped in and set out to make an impression on the eager on-lookers. We looked good out on the track, rounding up a Mini and setting a 55 second lap time before the engine blew up due to oil starvation. (Supersprint course lap record is 46.3494 seconds)2009 Lap Records Collie Supersprint

We have always battled with this problem, as we still run a modified wet sump, and we have experimented with baffling and gates in the sump to try and limit the problem, but at the high speeds seen on the track we really had no hope of finishing a full sprint.

We will get the engine out and try to re-build it for use in the 2008 race car as a driver training and race day prep tool.

We have just received two new Honda 600 RR engines so we now hope to move into development of these into our new designs for the 2010 and 2011 race cars.

Also don't forget to see the official CMT website Curtin Motorsport Team Official Site

FSAE-WA

At the recent CAMS Festival of Motorsport, held at the Quit Motorplex in Kwinana, CMT was joined by UWA and ECU to put on a demonstration FSAE-A competition.

Please see the results below
(note results reflect the point scoring system used in the FSAE-A competition)

The event was a good chance for the there teams to practice race day preparation and get in some good driver training. UWAM had a little inter team competitiveness happening with the 2010 team trying to out do the team from 2009 running the 2005 car and the 2009 car respectively.

ECU-R performed well in the autocross event but us at CMT had the good on them in the acceleration event on the day.

Considering we only got our car running at 5.00am the morning of the event(thanks to some help from UWA and plenty of hard work by a hand full of our more dedicated team members)we are reasonably pleased with the day.

There was a decent turn out of spectators given that it was on Valentines days and 37 degrees. We must make a note of our many thanks for CAMS inviting us to have a demonstration at the festival and we very much look forward to next years.

Team	Skid Pan	Acceleration (0-75m)	Autocross	Total
UWAM 2010 team	50	72.2	150	272.2
UWAM Germany team	47.3	75	133.5	255.8
ECU-R	27.8	44	135.8	207.6
CMT	24.9	47.4	69.5	141.8

We were also lucky enough to have the kind bunch at Launch Helmet Cams lend us a camera for the day and we managed to get some pretty impressive footage.

The Launch Helmet Cams gang has some top quality gear and there site is definately worth a look. Keep an eye out for some of our videos to be uploaded soon.

www.launchhelmetcams.com.au