High School Build Project III

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Girls pulling the motor

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Got frame painted

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Last day of school for a while

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We are back in school and have finished up our safety
Most all of my students are new - time to start teaching welding and grinding

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We got a new plasma cutter
It is sweet

[Jmh68C10]

Thats awesome, We didn't do anything close to this in high school auto tech. Our biggest task was tearing down and re assembling a lawn mower.... Keep up the good work!

[68GMCCustom]

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[Gregski]

Outstanding, I didn't know schools still had programs like this, this is brilliant keep up the great job, the world is watching (no pressure, jk)

[68basket]

love following your class builds!

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Putting in c-notches

[68bowtie]

looks real good. what did you use on the steel strips?

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Originally Posted by 68bowtie

looks real good. what did you use on the steel strips?

Painted them with duplica-color cast iron

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We are going to put off finishing the truck until next school year
We are in a solar powered go cart competition with 17 other schools in upper east TN. The program is through a grant. Each school is given a stripped down go cart, racing seat, safety harness, 24 volt motor, and an allowance to spend on components to finish it.
When finished, we take it to Bristol Motor Speedway in May to compete in a 1/4 drag race and a 8 mile endurance race with 4 students doing all of the racing
This should be interesting, fun, and challenging for all of us
If anyone has any insight on anything- please help us out
Here is where we are at today

[TexasLS1]

Awesome!!! I'm not much help in the way of suggestions at this point, but looking forward to see this come together!

What are the rules as to what you can and cannot do to the go cart for the race (other than no gas-powered motor lol)?

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We were given a 24 volt motor
We got pick our solar panel
No suspension or frame modification but can weld or bolt on bracket
Use stock tires
Battery configuration is up to us - probably gonna do 2 big 12 volt batteries

[Pick]

Can the stock tires be worn out? (perhaps a bit prematurely?) I'm thinkin' you want to reduce rolling resistance as much as possible by eliminating the aggressive tread.

Make sure all of the bearings are really smooth......again, to reduce rolling resistance as much as possible.

Think light!

I'm not sure if aero will come into play too much, but I'd be tempted to explore a really lightweight body or fairings to take as much drag out of the equation as possible as well.

That's all I have off the top of my head..........it sounds like a fun project!

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We got the solar go kart done
We just been running it here at school an ended up running 15.5 miles and top speed was 32 mph
We go to Bristol speedway on May 8 for our competition
4 students get to race it in an 8 mile endurance race then a 1 mile speed race

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Now we back to working on truck

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Disassembling front end

[flashed]

Glad you got the cart done and good to see them back on the truck too.

[STAP54]

This is awesome! Glad you're able to teach the younger generation, and keep their minds occupied. Man, wish my school would of had a program like this!

Steve

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Doing a little fender repair

[webberjames95]

nice

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We raced at Bristol and got 6th in speed race and 4th in the endurance race
Very proud of my crew

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Building LS motor plates