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To start this month’s (rather belated!)

newsletter the team would like to express

their thanks to all that were able to come

along and support the team for the rollout.

We felt that the evening was a massive

success, and it was so great to see so many

of you there supporting us!

George started the evening off with a

presentation of the team’s history and

previous cars (and team members), and

then lead into the technical aspects of the

new car. Once the presentation was over

we headed out into the foyer area, and

revealed the car to the many spectators.

The feedback from around the room was

really positive, and with the weight of the

car announced at under 160kg! even the

most hardy of the FS Alumni were

impressed with the team’s efforts.

The team poses having just revealed their 2014 challenger

Click the image below to watch our presentation video:

ROLLING OUT

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ROLLOUT - GALLERY

George running through the team history

Carly waiting patiently to be revealed

MAHLE chats with team members

Guests ready for the presentation

Brookes Staff & FS Alumni in discussion 2012 team members reunited

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With the Rollout serving as the team’s final

deadline for the completed car, the team

were pushing 100% to get the remaining

parts manufactured and tested before

getting the car to a completed and

presentatble state ready for the unveling.

The main team goal right from the

beginning of the year was to try and

achieve 300km of testing mileage before

the first competition at Formula Student UK

on July 9th, and with the Rollout happening

on June 2nd, the completed car would

thenbe given a 1 month & 1 week testing

period, in order to iron out any problems,

and bring any upgrades to the car.

The first planned test will be to take the car

to the Brooklands College chassis dyno on

Friday 7th of June, to give the complete

drivetrain a proof test, and also to start to

finalise the engine fuelling map with the

new intake system onboard.

With the first shakedown of the car

happening on the 6th of June, the team is

currently running 14 days ahead of this

time last year. Plus the FSUK competition is

a week later than in 2013, and so the team

is overall around 21 days ahead of where

we were. This is a marked improvement,

and with an aggressive testing schedule of

8 test days, hopefully the team will be able

to cover enough mileage to see the new

drivers getting up to full speed, and ironing

out the gremlins and reliability problems

that we have seen in previous years.

The final stages of Carly’s manufacture

FINAL BUILD

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This month we would like to express a special thankyou to the following companies:

Thanks very much to Zircotec for coating

our new exhaust pipe with their

‘Performance White’ coating, and supplying

us with their ‘Zircoflex’ heat shielding

material. The coating offers reduced heat

transfer from the exhaust, and the Zircoflex

creates a thermal barrier that we have

found reduces component temperatures by

more than 50%.

Big thanks to AN Motorsport for helping the

team out with a new dry-break connection

for the fuel system, bespoke fuel lines &

bespoke air lines for the car.

As well as supporting us with machining

tools all year round, SECO have machined a

bespoke shifter barrel for us in house. This

barrel allows us to remove the false neutral

from the ‘motorbike style’ sequential

gearbox, and run the full 6 gears in the box.

Thanks to CamCoat for coating the piston

and cylinder head in their thermal

management triple piston coating system.

This will help to increase the surface

hardness and protect from wear and

detonation in the combustion chamber.

Finally a big thanks to Oxford Carpentry for

their help with the front & rear wing C-

Channel molds. Visit their website here:

http://www.oxfordcarpentry.com/

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Our Zircotec coated exhaust pipe

Thanks to AN for our fuel & air lines

SECO’s bespoke shifter-barrels

510cc piston vs 570 with CamCoat

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The first outing for Carly will be at

Brooklands College’s rolling road facility,

within their engineering department.

This will be the first opportunity for the car

to be loaded up fully, with the engine,

gearbox and drivetrain put under maximum

loading while the engine map is fine-tuned.

The rolling road facility allows the team to

understand more of the differences

between the in-house engine dyno here at

Oxford Brookes Uni and the performance of

the engine on the car, and helps us to

improve the operating conditions of the

engine back at base, as well as offering the

team an opportunity to make changes to

the map based on transient running,

instead of just steady state as can be

observed at Brookes.

The powertrain group has already seen an

improvement of around 30% in both Torque

and Power this year through the combined

usage of the Brookes and Brooklands

facilities, and when the car hits the track

for the first time next week, we are

expecting a greatly improved Acceleration

time, meaning more points at competition.

Engine rebuild in full swing during the final car build stages

Carly put through her paces on Brooklands College’s Chassis Dyno

ROLLING ROAD

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