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

[jd74914]

QUOTE (airsix @ Apr 6 2005, 03:34 PM)

You know, I've been wanting to know something about Formula SAE - Every year there are new cars and new designs. And many of them are AWESOME. Where do they go? Do they sit in the back of some campus warehouse collecting dust? What about the designs? Do they just end up in a box of old college notes in some Engineer's attic? I wish/hope that some of these designs were/are available. I'd love to build one (but not design one). -Ben M.

I know a few guys that have worked on the FSAE teams (at Virginia Tech and Cornell).

Actually, some are sold to private people to autoX. I guess that they are pretty sucessful out on the small courses, but once you get to larger ones the falter (so said the engineer for Cornell, who is now the chief engineer for Callaway Cars, so I think he's probably correct). It depends on the school.