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Here on our homepage you can keep track of the team's most recent progress on the current year's race car. You will also find contact information for team members, as well as current car specifications and pictures of past year's cars. Please, if you are interested in joining or helping the team, e-mail any one of our members and we'll be glad to let you know what you can help with!  Current Progress: One important note: The team is going to Fontana, California this year at the end of June to compete in fSAE West! We look forward to the challenge at this international competition! Currently, the Hartford Motorsports team is hard at work doing many different things. Here's some updates on the progress of everything: Last week, the team attended 2 additional allocations meetings and Hartford's SGA has given us another $5500 for the car. Lots of thanks to SGA! Steve has recently finalized the suspension design for the 2008 car, and Jon and the fabrication team has started making a-arms. The team has completed all of the mounting locations for suspension control arms. Jon has designed the rocker arm system for the car, and has begun mocking up the front and rear push/pull rod system. Brett and the engine team has successfully fuel injected the YFZ 450 with the Haltech system, and is continuing work on fine tuning the system. The engine team hopes to design a new air intake soon. The frame is completed and finish welded. Nick and a few team members have mocked up the seat pan and dash board, and we hope to have these components laser cut within a few weeks. The 2007 still remains on the dyno tester for tuning purposes, but it still is able to be driven. George continues work on making wheel nuts, spindles, etc. Some new pictures of the team's progress in the past month: 
 
 
 Upcoming Events and Important Dates: November 8th, 2007: The team presents at CCAT, 6:00 pm in East Hartford November 22nd, 2007: The new front and rear uprights are expected to be milled thanks to UTD. Also, we are anticipating to have all suspension control arms done by this date and out for heat treating. Brett anticipates to have the YFZ fuel map done and the engine tuned to performance. Winter Break: The team hopes to have the engine mounts at or near completion, and a rolling chassis.  |
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