Team name: KMITL Initial
University: King Mongkuts Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Class: Class 1
Car Number: 52
Country: Thailand
Technical Specification
Length: 2652
Width: 1401
Height: 1172
Wheelbase: 1600
Track: 1220/1180
Weight – no driver: 180
Weight – distribution including driver: 112/136
Suspension: Double unequal length A-Arm with Anti-Squat. with Fox DHX Air shock absorbers
Tyres: 18.0 x 6.0 x 10 R25B Hoosier
Wheels: 254 mm wide, Al Rim
Brakes: Steel Alloy, 6 Inch dia, Laser cut roter
Chassis construction: One piece tubular spaceframe
Engine: 2006 / Suzuki LTR-450K6 four stroke engine
Bore: 95.5
Stroke: 62.8
Cylinders: single
CC: 450
Fuel Type: E-85
Fuel System: Suzuki LTR-450 ,fuel injection
Max Power: 56 kW @9500rpm
Max Torque: 60 Nm @ 8500rpm
Transmission: CVT system with electronic control system
Differential: Viscous Limited Slip, EVO III housing modified
Final Drive: 2.17:1-0.91:1
Team Profile
“MOBIUS” is the name of new car from “Initial Team”, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand. Our team had found sine 2005. The strong point of our team is the collaboration between “Engineering” students from Faculty of Engineering and “Industrial Design” students from Faculty of Architecture. We are separated into eight groups; engine, frame, suspension, steering, electronic, driver-train, body and brake. The concept of our design is “innovation”. The new innovation points of “MOBIUS” are CVT (continuous variable transmission), 10 inches carbon fiber wheel and single cylinder engine with turbocharger. As a result, we can reduce the car weight from last model of 237 kg to new model of 180 kg. We use the knowledge from our classroom and the popular race car technology books to help us for car design. In order to reduce the greenhouse gas emission and unburned hydrocarbon, we choose renewable oxygenated bio-ethanol E-85. Moreover, it can be produced from sugarcane and cassava in Thailand. This year is second time of our team to joint FS competition in UK. We got a 24th places in overall ranking for last year competition. In this year we will do it better than last year result.
You will know Thailand by tourism but we want you to know us by such kind of FS motorsport competition. We will fly about 12 hours to joint this competition and we are the first and only one team from Thailand. Moreover, we are the first team in Thailand that use single cylinder engine, 10 inches wheel carbon fiber and CVT (continuous variable transmission). In addition, small size of drivers is also the advantage of our team. We hope that we will be one of leader team from Asia and we can make a good international collaboration and friends.
Website: www.kmitl.ac.th/autofsae
