A day of driving around + secret works

I left home later than usual yesterday as i wanted to borrow my dad's car. And as i was about to leave at 10am, my parents asked for a ride to Changi village as my dad's friend asked them out. So i drove to pick yongxi up at his brother's place and dropped my parents off at changi village (#1) before heading to school on the PIE. Traffic was smooth and i averaged about 90 km/h on the expressway, a speed i was comfortable with (#2).

Picked up Kaixin and went for lunch at the newly opened seng siong near school as there would be more parking spaces at MAE carpack near noon. Luckily found a space opposite the workshop and went to cad lab to settle stuff, also passed drawings and reports to the FYP members. As the carbon fibre would be arriving soon, we will be gaining experience on laying carbon fibres by making the wheel fairings first.

Alas, while making the mold, we realised that coming up with a nice curve of the required dimensions using aluminium sheet was taking too long, not to mention difficult. Thus i had to drive to jurong industrial area, of which i was apprehensive as it is always very crowded there. But with their support, and of course, at the same time being made fun of by yongxi and kaixin, i managed to get a parking spot and found out that 204mm inner diameter pipes are very expensive, at $60~85 for 400mm length.

In the end, we decided to improvise with other materials and after looking at popular in NTU which have nothing we require, i drove to IMM to Daiso, which we found 2 dustbins of the required diameters and will use that for the curvature(#3). Will machine to required dimensions tomorrow and will post it up, hopefully will be good enough for the fairings.

After which was to drive to Roy's place where we settled the decals stuff for the secret presents to the 06/07 solar car team,of which clever yongxi had correctly guessed what the items are. Hopefully all will like it. Was customising it till 2 am in the morning, before waking up at 830 this morning to continue. It took longer than i expected, thus by the time i completed it, there was no point going to school as i have to head down to Shell house later to meet up with the rest who are going for the gourami challenge. And after that meeting, supposed to be a short one, will head to Funan mall to meet the team for dinner. =D

SO... now still at home, probably will catch up with my zZZZZzzzZ'S in a while, better to look fresh when meeting the people at Shell. heh.

Here's a sneak preview of the very full bag i will be carrying later, there are a total of 7 customised presents (also sincere thanks to the efforts of roy, who worked on it despite being rather tired from his shift work and also to yongxi, who sat in the car, lost in Sengkang/Punggol with me driving -> lousy vehicle commander =P)