I could go on and on too....hows about the guy who did the energy calculations completely wrong and half-assed, ignoring aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance....but hey if it weren't for one of my executive decisions they would still be trying to figure out how a CVT works...thank god I finally convinced them after two weeks that they needed to do a single gear reduction, for which they are still struggling to design a damn belt tensioner for...and lord knows how long our frame would have lasted without my intervention, alls they had to do was pay attention to load paths, but nope, let's put a damn shock mount at the end of a long beam, that's a great idea.
Oh and I have to show you the initial design report that the suspension team submitted....
Our car’s suspension consists of a double wishbone suspension utilizing pushrods. It wasdecided to not use anti-roll or anti-sway bars. It was decided to not use anti-squat or anti-dive geometries. A design goal for our suspension was to minimize lateral movement of the roll center while cornering. This will improve handling feel while cornering. Another design goal was to have a larger natural frequency in the front of the car than the rear. This will make the steering more responsive. We will also have a larger stiffness in the rear than the front because the weight distribution was 45% front and 55% rear. We used bell cranks to attain motion ratios of 1 in front and rear. Adjustable shocks were used with springs of 225 lb/in front and 250 lb/in. rear.
This is literally a written report of the work they did over the past two semesters for their senior design project. I like how they "decided" to not use anti-roll bars, I doubt they could even tell me what one does. Our weight distribution is far from 55/45 and even still that doesn't necessarily explain why they have the rear suspension stiffer. No mention of how they even designed the suspension (ended up eating my own hat when they told me how they designed it and then I found out its actually better off if we don't include it in the report)....the motion ratios are not always one, they change dynamically...
This is probably not being a good leader, is it? Bitching on the Cavs forum? Nah, I deserve it, I was up literally all night fixing everything in the model and correcting their reports...
