Starlink Co. has yet again provided us with stickers and decals for Zephyr, free of charge. Starlink is a leader in digital printing, and the kind folks at Starlink even expedited our decals order so we can have them on the car before FSGP/ASC! Thank you very much for your support!
Although everything couldn’t quite come together this time, the team certainly had a memorable experience these past two weeks. The mechanical team put in a truly incredible amount of work into Zephyr (I am personally on the electrical team, so I think I can say this without bragging, haha). So much of the car you …
Saturday July 19th was CalSol’s first and last day participating in the Formula Sun Grand Prix 2014 at the Circuit of the Americas. CalSol successfully got Zephyr on the track on Saturday morning. We were able to get a few laps around the track but soon discovered an electrical problem that caused the car to …
Hello everyone! Sorry to keep you in the dark during this past week… if you kept up with our facebook posts, you’d know that this past week was filled with a whole lotta fixing for our team. The team arrived in Austin, TX with Zephyr that needed a lot of fixing. First of all, Scrutineering …
Going with the trend of honoring our top three sponsors for Zephyr / ASC 2014, this shout out is for Kreysler & Associates. Kresyler donated time on their 3 and 5-axis CNCs to machine our molds at free of charge.
What a rough week it’s been. The team had planned on departing to Austin, TX on Thursday morning. But as luck would have it, we blew out our braking system on Zephyr while testing on Wednesday evening. There were several fatal faults in both the design and implementation of the original brakes. ASC regulation states …
With only days until the race, CalSol has been working in overdrive, and the results are showing in the impressive performance of Zephyr. The team is working all hours of the day and night testing the various systems such as the power distribution box contactors, implementing final touches like the dashboard, and checking off end-stage …
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