Blog 19: Answer 3

1.  What is your EQ?

What are the best setups for a street/strip vehicle considering budget, performance, and drivability?

2.  What is your third answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
The street/strip setup I chose to go with was a budget cap of 15,000.

3.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
This is a bare bones car. Primer for paint, one seat, no carpet but with a running motor trans and vehicle. It is a basic race car where is minimal to save weight and therefore increase performance. 

4.  What printed source best supports your answer?
My mentorship best supports my answer because I'm actually building it.

5.  What other source supports your answer?
My personal experience has taught me a lot more then RC. Getting out in the real world and networking with many company's and many other racers has helped me a lot. 

6.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.
My concluding thought is that through building this truck I'm learning tons and gaining a lot of real world experiences

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?

I started putting the motor together. I had to assemble the pistons and rods. I then put a  pressure ring on them and checked the deck height with my Grandpa. Once the height was checked we documented it for the machinist to make them the same height. I didn't realize how close the heights had to be. The ones we are machining are only 3 thousands of an inch away. 

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned? I learned hands on with my grandpa and my dad that building a motor properly requires time and precision there are specific steps and procedures you have to take in order build it correctly. The steps are so important that if you were to forget one or do it wrong it could ruin the whole motor.

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why? I plan to interview my grandpa because he has raced most of his life and he could give me ideas on setups he used that worked well.

Blog 1 – Senior Final Lesson/Interview Reflection

1.  What three lessons were most helpful for you to see, and why?

I found Football, Drag Racing, and Automotive maintenance to be the most helpful for me. Football was helpful in making me realize i should do something that I truly had a passion for. The other two were car based which I am going to do as my topic so it helped me with ideas as far as the EQ and the activity. Plus they were all a lot of fun and relatively well done.

2. List one thing that you learned about the senior project in interviews that will help you get off to a good start?

Sadly I wasn't present for the interviews but I would like to have asked how they came up with their EQ because I am struggling with that the most. 

3. What topic(s) are you considering, and why?

I am going to do Automotive restoration and Modification. I have already committed to an automotive topic because I have purchased a truck for the project and am going to use it for examples and possibly activity and for sure my independent components. My reason for wanting to do an automotive topic is because I have good mentors, I am going to pursue is as a future job, and it's my passion.

4. What EQ do you think might be interesting to consider in guiding a project like this?

Im thinking somewhere along the line of, What is the best way to restore and modify a vehicle into a reliable mode of transportation? or What is the most efficient way to build a budget racer? 

5. What are some ideas you have about finding summer mentorship?

I am in talks with a custom truck shop, an autoshop teacher, and some family in the automotive industry.