WISCONSIN-STOUT PUTS FAITH IN GEARBOX REDESIGN FOR BAJA

Blue Devil Racing Team believes packaging and durability advantages more than offset weight and low-end-torque penalties.

A major design change that the University of Wisconsin-Stout Blue Devil Racing team decided to implement for the 2015 Baja SAE Collegiate Design Series season was a new custom gearbox. Stout has been using custom gearboxes for the last 10 or so years. Last year we decided to switch from a double to a quad reduction for a smaller packaging of the subsystem.

With a double reduction, a very large gear (diameter of almost 8 in/200 mm) is required to achieve the final reduction that we are looking for. With a quad reduction we are able to obtain the same reduction in a much smaller gear case.