Status: October 27

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Built racetrack

8-8foot sections (we're only using 7 sections)

one downhill section and one uphill section

11 hours of intense physical labor

Huge mess in hallways of Cushing

Yes, we did let Chris use power tools

Experimented with different gearing on car (went back to original gearing)

Made the simple (1 gear) car functional

It runs too slow, need to regear it a little

Put together an outline for our report

TO DO:

Finish (start?) the report

Make gear shifts dependent on performance of car

Construct starting mechanism for track

Put pictures on this page