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Another “200 mph” hat to the collection! :-)

by EvaIsAwesome June 30, 2019

Posted June 30, 2019. Few things are as iconic for the Bonneville Salt Flats as the “200 mph Club” hat,…
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A first glimpse of Green Envy

by EvaIsAwesome June 8, 2018

The design work for the Green Envy is moving along! Here is the first glimpse of it, and it is…

1 week ago by eva_hakansson —- Productive weekend! —- Bill and I have had a relatively productive weekend, despite I have pretty nasty cold still lingering around, making me hack my lungs out. In addition to giving the KillaJoule sidecar an overhaul (we will re-use it for Green Envy to save time), Bill machined the steering neck for the Green Envy. . . The steering neck may look like a very simple part, but it actually isn’t! It is made from high-strength chromoly steel, and the precision requirements are very high! It is what holds the entire front end and steering to the rest of…
1 week ago by eva_hakansson A beautiful winter day in the Southern Hemisphere and time for some sidecar TLC (Tendering Loving Care)! . . We will - at least initially - re-use the KillaJoule sidecar for the Green Envy to save some valuable fabrication time. It needed some modifications to fit the new @ohlinsracing shock, and needed some repair of the fender mount, so I took the opportunity to give it a complete overhaul with new paint. #GreenEnvy #FlatOutIntoTheFuture #GirlsLovePowertools #KillaJoule
2 days ago by eva_hakansson Houston, we have a problem.... That was supposed to be a 3D printed model of me, to match the 3D printed KillaJoule and Green Envy models on the 2nd and 4th photo. Supposed to. For some reason, all four (4!) of my 3D printers have decided to act up today. If you are a supporter and you are waiting for your KillaJoule or Green Envy model, please be patient, I am trying to print them! I will mail them as soon as they are made. It just seems to be one of these days when nothing works... Oh well... I…
2 weeks ago by eva_hakansson —- Visit to Air New Zealand’s tyre maintenance facility! —- Being a university lecturer sometimes come with perks - my 4th year engineering students Summer and Dorsa had organized a visit at the Air New Zealand tyre maintenance facility, and I got to come with them! :-D . . The airplane take-off and landing speed is much lower than what we do in land speed racing, but it was still very interesting and useful to learn about aircraft tyres. Thank you Geoff for hosting us! #ReInventingTheWheel
3 days ago by eva_hakansson Gear inventory day! Several important decisions need to be made about the Green Envy gearing, and being on a shoe-string budget, we want to re-use as many of the gears from the KillaJoule as we can. #GreenEnvy #KillaJoule #EvaHakansson #FlatOutIntoTheFuture #coolgirlsbuildtheirownracecars