Supermileage Car

In years past I've been involved with human powered vehicle projects, and each year we talked about how cool it would be to have a professional looking monocoque carbon fiber fairing/chassis. Our fairings always turned out disastrous, though somehow we were still able to use them. This year, for the supermileage car I'm working on for my Senior Project, we actually pulled it off. Yesterday we popped our professional looking monocoque carbon fiber fairing/chassis out of their molds. It took about 600 man-hours of work over 5 weeks, split between 3 people, to get this. We're still not done with it, but this is a huge milestone. We still have to trim the edges and windows, make and install the windows, carbon fiber seat, carbon fiber firewall, and then the fairing will be done. After that we'll have to put all the components together and get it to run.


Finished parts; 17.8lbs total

Structural foam was used between layers of carbon fiber to provide stiffness and strength to hold the weight of the driver.

The huge autoclave the molds were cured in.