06/21/2024
FSAE Michigan 2024...what a comp. Things didn’t pan out the way we wanted them to, but the team still took a lot of positives away and are already in full swing of manufacturing F25.
During static tech, several issues were encountered such as an impact attenuator that was 4mm too high and a plenum that was too long. After replacing the impact attenuator and replacing the plenum, we were able to fly through all the dynamic tech items on our first try (big win for the team compared to last year’s sound incident).
For the dynamic events, things started off fairly strong with skidpad; however, on our second skidpad attempt our engine unfortunately suffered a failure. has a sad but beautiful video of it happening in real time.
Even with a blown up engine, the team still persevered and pulled an all nighter in an attempt to complete a full engine swap with a stock engine. Unfortunately, when the new engine was all hooked up car 7 didn’t want to fire up.
With all of that said, there were still many wins for the team. For the static and dynamic events we completed, we performed better in all of them compared to last year. Some of the highlights were 1st in the Business Presentation, major improvement in cost, and a top-10 3 view drawing.
A massive thank you to the members of our team who put in countless hours, our sponsors for supporting us this year, and Georgia Tech for allowing us to pursue our passion.
We’ll be back stronger next year.
