This year we’re delving into the world of aerodynamics with an undertray and a diffuser! We’ve fabricated the mould inhouse; now to fill some gaps and apply primer before carbon fibre resin infuser.

UGR-19’s chassis is finished and ready to be sent away for powder coating with G&M tomorrow! It’s 3kg lighter than last year’s chassis.

The fuel tank, cooling system, exhaust heat shield and shifter have been dry fitted in position. This will allow us to finalise our packaging around the engine before the chassis is sandblasted and painted.

We’d like to say a massive thank you to Hague Fasteners (@specialfastener) for supplying us with their top quality fasteners! We’ll be using these for securing our wheels to the unsprung mass assembly this year.

Today we completed the first manufacturing stage of our brand new fuel tank. Thank you to G&M Radiators for helping us out! This year’s fuel tank is smaller and has a thinner wall thickness, so we’ve added ribs to improve stiffness (get your mind out of the gutter…)

Matt has been hard at work in the garage building a steel prototype pedal box which will be machined from aluminium once all the mechanisms and packaging are finalised. The aim is to reduce the size and increase the stiffness of the design.

UGR-19’s bodywork mould is fully assembled! Watch the timelapse below to see the assembly process.

The team have been busy stripping back the differential assembly so that the new design modifications can be made. It needed a proper clean after the amount of testing we did this year!

Check out the reassembly time-lapse below…

The UGR team have been hard at work in the garage! At the beginning of February we removed the chassis from the MDF jig, then positioned and fabricated our steering collum. We then test fitted the engine, intake and exhaust to allow us to get all the mounting sorted for the radiator, headrest and other powertain and driver environment components. So far, so good! Keep an eye on our Instagram (@ugracing) for regular build updates.

Check out our brand new sprockets for UGR-19!

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Daniel, who designed the sprockets, explains: “It was decided that a new final drive ratio was needed to complement the switch to smaller 10-inch wheels. With the help of OptimumLap simulations, a smaller rear sprocket was decided upon and then simulated in the finite element software Abaqus to ensure the geometry can withstand the torque from the engine.” ⁣

A big thanks to the University of Glasgow’s mechanical workshop for making them for us.

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