SAE BAJA 2016

STEERING DEPARTMENT
1. How is steering wheel connected to wheel?
2. What is rack & pinion arrangement?
3. What is ACKERMANN angle?
4. What is road feel?
5. What is Camber Angle, caster angle, and king pin inclination?
6. What is steering ratio?
7. What are different types of steering system?
8. Which steering system is best for ATV and why?
9. What are the different components of steering system? What is the function of
each component ?
10. What is a turning circle? How it is calculated?
11. What are the various function of Steering wheels and how they are
performed?

BRAKING DEPARTMENT
1. What is braking system?
2. What are the different types of brake circuit?
3. What are the different types of brake fluids?
4. Define disc brake and drum brakes?
5. What is braking system?
6. Explain stopping distance and its expression?
7. What is braking efficiency?
8. What is pedal ratio?
9. What is clamping force?
10.What is pedal effort?

SUSPENSION DEPARTMENT
1. What is suspension system?
2. What is purpose of suspension system?
3. What do you mean by spring? what are different types of springs?what
is the purpose of spring in automobile?
4. What is damper?what are its function?
5. What is structs?
6. What do you mean by camber?why is it important?
7. What do you mean by caster? Why is it important?
8. What do you mean by toe In and toe out? Why are they important?
9. What are different types of suspension system? Study about all of
them.
10.Differentiate between rear and front suspension.
11.What do you mean by sprung weight and unsprung weight?
12.What do you mean by roll couple percentage?
13.What do you mean by jacking force?
14.What do you mean by anti-drive and anti-squat?

15.What are selection criteria of suspension system?

16.Design methodology of suspension system.
17.Double wishbone vs Mc-pherson strut vs trailing arm
18.What do you mean by kingpin inclination?
19.Comparison of oil type and gas type shock absorber.
20.What do you mean by roll centre?
21.What are the advantages of negative camber?
22.Why we need dampers?
23.What do you mean by damping co-efficient?
24.What do you mean by active and semi-active suspension?
25.What do you mean by SAI?
26.What are active coils of spring?
27.What are inactive coils of spring?
28.What do you mean by torsion bar?
29.What is anti-roll bar and write its purposes.
30.What do you mean by CG and roll-centre?
TRANSMISSION DEPARTMENT
1. What are different types of differential? Write its advantages and
disadvantages.
2. What are different types of transmission?Study them.
3. What is rolling and traction effort?
4. What are specifications of Baja engine?
5. Complete study of gear box and gear ratio.
6. Find final gear ratio required for our vehicle.
7. Explain the function of clutch.What are wet and dry clutches? Which one is
better for us?
CHASSIS DEPARTMENT
1. What is chassis?
2. What are the different types of chassis?
3. What are the properties of metal?
Ultimate Tensile Strength
Yield Strength
Hardness
Malleability
Machinability
Ductility
Toughness
Poissons Ratio
4. How SAE designate the steel or SAE steel designation method?
5. Most important for chassis department is first of all they all should be clear
about the things given about chassis in rulebook.
6. What are the effects of alloying steel with different alloying elements?