Flow Meter

Since the cars are on their way to Cali and we are stuck here everyone decided to catch up on all the homework we've put off this past week. Everyone but me that is...I worked on the flow meter and trying to seal of the holes in the connecting pipes. Here are some pictures I took today with my new sweet action camera.

Wes


The 50cc

Nate working on the Flow Meter

A long time coming...

So here we are, April 2nd and the cars are actually being shipped to Cali today. To be honest I didn't think we were gonna make it. With things failing, taking way more time than they should, and us deciding to take an extra car things were looking very bleak for the Cedarville team. Thankfully we had a ton of help and guys (and girls) who stepped up and did what it took so we had finished cars to ship today. I personally have only gotten 8 hours of sleep since I woke up Saturday morning...Gotta love oh crap week. For those of you who don't know what oh crap week is, we have defined it as the week/two weeks before a competition when you truly realize how far you are behind and what needs to get done to pass inspection. Sorry for such a long break from updating. We all have just been crazy busy. Here are some pictures in hopes that you still might love us.

Wes

Mary on the mill

Miles and Dustin working on the 70cc

Team looking around the car

Team working on the car

Witry mounting front end of GL2

Witry still mounting...

Frank wiring "The Box"

Ryan with his 50cc

Wes mounting the front end of Slipstream

Checking seatbelt mounting and new button placement

Dr. Dustin listening to the 70cc's "heartbeat"

Fixing Slipstream's frame

5-Point Harness! (total overkill I know but rules are rules...)

The Morning Show cont...

Here is the interview thanks to the ABC/FOX station out in Dayton,OH. Enjoy.

Wes

The Morning Show

Hey kids! Welcome back to another school year filled with bondo fumes, fiberglass particles stuck in shirts, and electrical mishaps. Now that I have been back on campus I was able to access our SAE Supermileage pictures from June and put them below. The summer was good for Cedarville Supermileage and allowed us to get our name out to the media which resulted on a few news articles, exotic car show invites, and an interview with the ABC station in Dayton, OH which is coming up Sept 4th. Next thing you know we'll be on Good Morning America...Anywho we are all really stoked about that and the things to come this year mileage wise. Enjoy the pictures from SAE!

Team Co-Captain
Wes Muntz
wmuntz@cedarville.edu

SAE Supermileage

I recently returned from six fun weeks at Officer Candidate School for the Marine Corps so needless to say I've been a little behind on the updates. Here is an article published by our public relations department talking about our 2nd place finish at SAE Supermileage.

Wes Muntz

June 29, 2007

Cedarville, Ohio — With gas prices on the rise, the pressure to find alternative fuels and improve fuel economy just keeps increasing. To encourage creative research on these issues, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) held its 28th Annual SAE International Supermileage® competition June 7-8 to see which engineering students could come up with the best “supermileage” on their self-designed and self-built vehicles.

Ready for the challenge, 10 Cedarville engineering students and their advisor, Dr. Larry Zavodney, designed and built two sleek cars, made to run frugally on regular automotive gasoline.

At the Eaton Corporation Marshall Proving Grounds in Marshall, Mich., Cedarville’s Gold Lightning II took second place with 1,240 miles per gallon. To put this into perspective, the car could have driven to California on less than two gallons of gas.

The competition included 32 schools from the U.S., Canada, India, and Bahrain. Schools such as Rose-Hulman (1,541 mpg), UCLA (832 mpg), and the University of Dayton (188 mpg) competed.