- Chris Twarog
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Racer X
We were on the way to Emissions testing and had to stop for a nice photo op. We're showing Englishtown that you can save fuel at the race track. Who wants to race for pinks :-)
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Huskynox Means Business
Well, it didn't go quite as scripted but due to some hard work by the team in the pits this bad machine is ready for a good flogging. It is actually behaving quite well, and MTU has already claimed victory in one metric!
Big day tomorrow and Thursday when this country car gets to spend time with some city slickers down in NYC.
- Chris Twarog
Monday, May 12, 2008
So it Begins
We are all waking up this morning wondering what is in store for us. A plane ride for sure for the ten of us traveling to Newark, NJ our first stop in the ten day road rally to Washington, DC. You know there are ten of traveling, and these ten people know how to make a hybrid car, but I will be in shock if all ten of us show up on time to Newark.
-Radar
-Radar
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The Truck is coming
36 hours from now a big truck is coming to steal away our prized hybrid.
We can't complain a whole lot since GM is taking us on the "vacation"
highlight of our college careers. The plan is a rigorous road rally
featuring extensive vehicle testing, fancy hotels, enough press releases
to satisfy a national news paper and of course a ton of fun. Our MTU
vehicle has been running great the last few days and Cobasys just signed
off on our new battery as being OK for the journey. Washington DC here we
come!
We can't complain a whole lot since GM is taking us on the "vacation"
highlight of our college careers. The plan is a rigorous road rally
featuring extensive vehicle testing, fancy hotels, enough press releases
to satisfy a national news paper and of course a ton of fun. Our MTU
vehicle has been running great the last few days and Cobasys just signed
off on our new battery as being OK for the journey. Washington DC here we
come!
Todd Cimermancic
Monday, April 14, 2008
Re: Lower Michigan
The huskynox just died in traffic. A nice guy from GM gave us a ride to
Jims house to get the truck and trailer. We've got 15 hours to fix it
before our media event and we know we're chasing an electrical gremlin
Jims house to get the truck and trailer. We've got 15 hours to fix it
before our media event and we know we're chasing an electrical gremlin
Todd Cimermancic
Saturday, April 12, 2008
All nighter?
Saturday, April 12, 12:02 AM
Well, today has been a sweet bonding day for some of the team. We started the day with class, but luckily were done with that by 1. Then Adam, Todd, Doug and I (Mindy) piled in to a B.A. Ford Fusion rented from the MTU Motorpool for 49 cents a mile. For those of you that follow the Huskynox team you would know that we don't wait for things and when we need something we get it ourselves. So we drove the 158 miles to the closest Suzuki dealer in Escanaba. You may wonder why we went to a Suzuki dealer for Huskynox parts, but that is a very long and frustrating story. So we got the parts we needed got some lunch and stopped at the local Honda dealer (you know you are in the U.P. when its spring, snowing and you are looking at motorcycles) then made the trek back to Houghton. Now mind you last night we got about 11'' of snow and it was snowing and really windy all day today. We got back to Houghton about 8 hours later and went right to the shop where we met Dunda, Woon and Bono. Dunda has been making some awesome refinements to the controls system. We have been here since the end of the road trip installing the parts we picked up and preparing the car to run for our ride and drive event we have tomorrow (Saturday). It is now 12:20 and the car is starting to go back together, its going to be running on time. Sunday Todd and Doug are taking the Huskynox down to the Detroit area for SAE congress and some more media/ ride and drive events. We are keeping the tradition of late nights and having things come down to the last few hours. Well its time to get a few more hours in tonight, we will keep you updated on the awesome things we do. LAAAATERRR!!!!
Well, today has been a sweet bonding day for some of the team. We started the day with class, but luckily were done with that by 1. Then Adam, Todd, Doug and I (Mindy) piled in to a B.A. Ford Fusion rented from the MTU Motorpool for 49 cents a mile. For those of you that follow the Huskynox team you would know that we don't wait for things and when we need something we get it ourselves. So we drove the 158 miles to the closest Suzuki dealer in Escanaba. You may wonder why we went to a Suzuki dealer for Huskynox parts, but that is a very long and frustrating story. So we got the parts we needed got some lunch and stopped at the local Honda dealer (you know you are in the U.P. when its spring, snowing and you are looking at motorcycles) then made the trek back to Houghton. Now mind you last night we got about 11'' of snow and it was snowing and really windy all day today. We got back to Houghton about 8 hours later and went right to the shop where we met Dunda, Woon and Bono. Dunda has been making some awesome refinements to the controls system. We have been here since the end of the road trip installing the parts we picked up and preparing the car to run for our ride and drive event we have tomorrow (Saturday). It is now 12:20 and the car is starting to go back together, its going to be running on time. Sunday Todd and Doug are taking the Huskynox down to the Detroit area for SAE congress and some more media/ ride and drive events. We are keeping the tradition of late nights and having things come down to the last few hours. Well its time to get a few more hours in tonight, we will keep you updated on the awesome things we do. LAAAATERRR!!!!
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