Eco-Marathon Day 1

Hello from sunny Southern California!
Day one of the Eco-Marathon has come and gone and both GL III and Slipstream II have passed through inspection. There were some minor delays on getting them through but all is well now. We have an early morning tomorrow due to a live interview via satellite with the Dayton ABC and FOX news channels taking place at 8:30 eastern time which is 5:30am our time... Hopefully we can pull some sweet action runs tomorrow and saturday. Here are some pics from today.

Wes


Team working on Gold Lightning III

Team getting interviewed on cars
Slipstream (Foreground) Gold Lightning (Back)

LA!

Dustin, Brandon, Witry and I left Cedarville today at 2 pm and flew to LA. We just got in and are at brandon's house currently. The rest of the team should be waking up right about now to start driving to Columbus and fly out to meet us tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow is gonna be a fun day of prepping the cars like mad.

Wes

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