|
Weight is truly the biggest factor in these style of competitions. Whatever you are doing you want to make sure the weight of the car is kept at an absolute minimum.
Since I assume you are going to be doing coast-burn style technique, you also need to make sure your engine is tuned to the optimal speeds you will be traveling at the actual competition. Ultimately the teams that win these competitions are those who have best tuned their specific vehicles to the rules/conditions of the sanctioning body (is this one Shell or SAE?) and to the actual track?
Ultimately sleeving the cylinder from the obnoxiously oversized/overpowered 150cc to something smaller is necessary but you also need to ensure you have some efficient means of transferring this power to the wheel (aka drivetrain and minimizing losses here is a big thing as well).
Are you doing this at a university level? How much access do you have to engine diagnostic equipment such as a dyno, wideband 02 metering, dataaq, etc?
Some more info on the project would be helpful in order to answer some more questions - I've got a good amount of experience and had some success with SuperMileage in the past let's say...
|