Prep Work

What a busy day! Tuesday night showed a great turnout as we made some final preparations for the plug's arrival. The plastic screen around the tent was sealed and hopefully we will have a ventilation duct for the tent pieced together soon. The large trailer was given some quick modifications for the trip up to Grand Rapids to pick up the foam plug from our friends at Van's Pattern Corp. (Hopefully the added support will provide enough stability and protection for the trip back!!!) Several team members spent most of the work shift down in the machine shop trimming some 2x4's. The boards will be used to build a temporary addition to the ventilation hood. Meanwhile, the electrical team was busy making themselves familiar with the code that ran previous cars. Now they will begin the intensive process of modifying and rewriting the codes for use in this year vehicle.

While we were finishing up the boards, a few members sitting in the Plastics Lab got in the festive spirit and hung colored lights on our tent. We got so much work done last night that Nick actually ran out of jobs for us. This is a great thing though, because it lets us know that we are ready to move forward with the project. More updates will come as the team goes into full production mode in these next few weeks as we try and meet our goal of having the lower half of the car body made before 2009 comes to a close.

Bronco Pride,
Joshua