The competetion went absolutely amazing! The night before the competition we were at the school until 1:30 making both of the cars run and move under their own power. Talk about a long day. Unfortunately, we could not get the elctric starts to work, possibly because the starts were made for upwards of 15hp engines
So next year i believe were going to look for a smaller starter. I've already gutted my Spree engine, which should be a near perfect fit for the 1.3hp 35cc honda
So in trying to make the electric start work on the new car we ended up breaking off the end of the crank, and had to rush out to buy a replacement engine asap. Then we tried to repair it but nio such luck, a snapped crak is gonna stay un-operable. So we put the replacement engine in and shaved down the pull start so we wouldn't have to cut any new mounts.
Our small car got an incredible 228 mpg with out the electric start. Just think if we could have killed it and coasted half way around the track
Our other car we had to throw a new 5hp motor on because its all we had left over. The other half of the team was working on this one most of the year, however they did not gear it down enough and just used a bike sprocket on the rear tire. We were hitting speeds of alomst 55mph in that car
Unfortunately we did not get very many mpg but who cars when your haulin * so low to the ground All and all we took second place with our new car and 9th with our giant engine. Out of 26 entries i was very pleased
I would machine a new gear to mesh with the bendix but the tooth profile definately is no regular gear tooth profile.
