SAE Mini Baja, anyone involved Options

[i love porsche]

i was lucky enough to be the only freshman on my SAE mini baja team at NJIT, we have 2 teams, and its lots of fun, ive been learning alot about welding and manufacturing, and all the engineering that is put into building a tubeframe, its really great stuff. the only bad thing is that my team is soooo lazy, our frame isnt finished when it very well could be, i keep getting on their case to do stuff or give me somthing to do, but its lots of fun otherwise, i got to design the dash face in Pro Engineer, and we are going to mill it from 1/8" aluminum, and im in charge of making a retractable steering column to make it easier to get out of the car in 5 seconds....

but anyways, ,its lots of fun, and here is a pic of our chassis so far

[airsix]

QUOTE (MattR @ Apr 6 2005, 04:07 PM)

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sawzall-smiley.gif) no joke. They are all cut up into pieces and thrown away. By rule, you arent allowed to submit the same car twice.

I wish that they would put the plans up for sale. I'd gladly pay $500 for a set of plans of a winning design. I'm sure a lot of other people would be interested in buying plans too. I want to build a little race car but I don't have the tools ($100,000 worth of software), time, or skill (I'm not an ME in my wildest dreams) to design something as well as the top teams do. I do however, have the ablilty to fabricate things given the specs and drawings. I bet there would be a big market for this. You can buy plans for hundreds of different homebuilt aircraft - why not little race cars too? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif)

-Ben M.