JuicedH22 Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 So here are some of the other pics from the race weekend, like I said, there were some badass cars there. UC did very well, had problems on Friday w/ autox (which cost us poll position for enduro), accel (short drag race), and skidpad (think small tight figure 8's) due to power loss from over restricting the muffler (sound issues). They took the restriction out and increased the tailpipe length to get the sound down to passing levels (< 110dBa) and open the exhaust up, which brought back all the power that was lost the day before. Doing so made the team fast again for Enduro (20 lap race of 22km) and resulted in the 5th fastest endurance time, bringing the team to an overall finish of 10th place. (Based on our times, doing some benchracing math, if we had not had the problems, we probably would have finished 4th or 5th overall.) Article that Winding Road made about the event (not highly accurate, but good informative read none-the-less) http://news.windingroad.com/motorsports/formula-sae-championship-like-racing-in-the-%e2%80%9860s/ Anyways enough of the talk, on too the cool stuff... http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24845-2/IMG_4136.JPG Overall event winner UWA (western australia) http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24854-2/IMG_4626.JPG http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24905-2/IMG_5379.JPG http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24773-2/IMG_3882.JPG Stuttgart (Germany) finished 2nd overall http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24776-2/IMG_3957.JPG http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24779-2/IMG_4021.JPG Wisconsin was the top finishing US team with an overall 4th place finish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuicedH22 Posted May 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24850-2/IMG_4307.JPG http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24859-2/IMG_4642.JPG http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24889-2/IMG_4967.JPG Clemson car said "OM NOM NOM NOM" http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24895-2/IMG_5179.JPG http://evilengineering.com/gallery/d/24901-2/IMG_5238.JPG http://bucchi.smugmug.com/photos/298482321_JN7UB-L.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuicedH22 Posted May 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 http://bucchi.smugmug.com/photos/298479957_bKwmx-L.jpg http://bucchi.smugmug.com/photos/298507666_Efexw-L.jpg http://lh6.ggpht.com/racingmaniac/SDHgPis-S2I/AAAAAAAAAKI/Z-NLb3eHgWg/OthersFSAE_019.JPG?imgmax=640 http://lh3.ggpht.com/racingmaniac/SDHgNys-SzI/AAAAAAAAAJw/2tfjvFbPO00/OthersFSAE_016.JPG?imgmax=640 http://lh3.ggpht.com/racingmaniac/SDHgQys-S5I/AAAAAAAAAKg/CYDAniq6uQ8/OthersFSAE_022.JPG?imgmax=640 http://lh5.ggpht.com/racingmaniac/SDHgXSs-TFI/AAAAAAAAAMA/wVaEhtNTAlM/OthersFSAE_034.JPG?imgmax=640 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuicedH22 Posted May 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 http://lh6.ggpht.com/racingmaniac/SDHglis-ThI/AAAAAAAAAPk/QNHpVrx9H1s/OthersFSAE_062.JPG?imgmax=640 http://lh3.ggpht.com/racingmaniac/SDHg0ys-T6I/AAAAAAAAASw/jW4tld3fzRQ/OthersFSAE_083.JPG?imgmax=640 http://lh3.ggpht.com/racingmaniac/SDHg7ys-UHI/AAAAAAAAAUY/4ZzjJNvfASQ/OthersFSAE_096.JPG?imgmax=640 probably the most badass looking car was the Red Bull sponsored TU Graz (Italy) http://lh4.ggpht.com/racingmaniac/SDHg-Cs-UMI/AAAAAAAAAVA/KQItV6qj6uE/OthersFSAE_101.JPG?imgmax=640 http://lh6.ggpht.com/racingmaniac/SDHhCis-UVI/AAAAAAAAAWI/gb1wokwFtPg/OthersFSAE_110.JPG?imgmax=640 http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/tviper2005/FSAE2008/IMG_1113.jpg http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/tviper2005/FSAE2008/IMG_1023.jpg Links to tons more pictures (and where these came from)... http://picasaweb.google.com/racingmaniac/FormulaSAE2008 http://bucchi.smugmug.com/FSAE%20AT%20MIS http://evilengineering.com/gallery/v/SAE/FSAE/FSAE08/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRocket1647545505 Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 So who gets to drive those things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 So who gets to drive those things? The students that worked on the car. Nice pics. I always enjoy the event, but I couldn't make it this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICEMAN1647545504 Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 How much does it cost to build one of those things??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuicedH22 Posted May 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 How much does it cost to build one of those things??? the budget varies, and you can tell it by the look of the cars... 'theoretically' you should be able to build one in the $15k range. However, the actual build cost of these cars is much higher. Some teams spend around $25k, and TU Graz w/ full Red Bull Racing sponsorship has been heard of spending well over the 6 figure mark... Our 2007 car had around $70k in it, if you include full price for parts we bought from sponsors, full price for machined parts, donated parts/machine time/equipment, and dont even get me started if you include labor price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coty061885 Posted May 21, 2008 Report Share Posted May 21, 2008 Did the Red Bull car manage to not break or crash? (Oh! Lame Formula one joke, sorry.) That shit looks like so much fun, wish I had gotten into that stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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