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]

We had some kids here locally who were on a Formula SAE team for WSU. They used our local autocross events as their testing venu. Each event they were here running, data logging, taking notes & pictures, etc. By the third event they had the car sorted out very well. Up to that point they had not pushed hard for good times - they just worked on getting things set-up. Their times were mid-pack to top-5. Then on the last run of the day their main driver decided to push it for all it had. He took TTOD on a 60 second course, with next fastest time being a ZO6 that was a full 16 seconds slower! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif)

-Ben M.