I don't really have any updates yet but I figured that I could get a new thread started for this.

We will have several guys taking a ton of pictures. I plan on uploading a big chunk of them every night.
I'm not much of a webmaster but I just learned the Denny Trimble Photo Gallery Method so I should be set.

I'll try to post updates and results as they become available. Good luck to everyone.

We got in to Detroit late last night. Only a few teams were out working.

Most of our pictures will get posted here.

Tomorrow I will sort through them a little better and try to rename most of them. Some of them are bad pictures because I just dumped everything we had. In the pictures I have up now the Auburn car is black. The UBC (British Columbia) car has a white frame. The University of Puerto Rico has the wing.

I have been trying to update the pictures on the link above for the last few hours. Pretty slow upload speeds from the hotel's "high speed internet". I guess I'm spoiled fast internet on campus. Anyway, about 500 new pictures are loading now. It may take a few more hours before anything is up.

Updates from the team captains meeting:
(I wouldn't consider any of this official coming from me)

Right now it looks like the 2006 FSAE will not be held at the Silverdome. SAE is looking for a new venue in the area (likely within about 30 miles of the Silverdome).

2006 FSAE West – Still in negotiations with Cal Speedway to use the infield for the competition. Will probably be held the first or second weekend in June. Watch the newsletter for details.

It looks like registration will open at the same time for both events. A team will only be allowed to sign up for one event to start. If spots are still available after 1 month teams will be allowed to sign up for a second event. Estimates right now look like West may be limited to 70 or 80 teams for the first year. The Detroit limit may change based on the new venue (not more than 140).

Static events start in the morning.

here are some car weights that we grabbed (good job leon):

Official Weight-In Excel File

Thanks a lot, James and Jack-

Being stuck at home, its really nice for you guys to post this stuff as it goes down. Keep up the good work. Not to be too greedy but are there more vehicle weights? You are planning to try to post info from the dynamic events as soon as you can too, right?

Thanks again!

Matthew

The original link now has about 500 pictures.
I was having trouble uploading them but it looks like it worked now.

About 100 more pictures are up here.

I'm hoping that tonight I can upload the pictures from today (about 400 so far). I haven't had the time that I thought I would to sort them out and name them all (and pull out the bad ones). Hopefully within a few pictures either way of a detail shot there is a picture of a team name or something.

Matt,
We had a guy sitting outside the tent recording numbers as the cars rolled off the scales. He is trying to get the officials to release their tally at the end.

You guys rock! Thanks for the great updates.


-Mark
Cal Poly Pomona

During the driver meetings for accel and skidpad the organizers notified everyone that the 100 octane fuel that they had been filling people's cars with all day long that it may contain 10% ethanol, so to keep things fair they are allowing teams to bring their own fuel to the event on friday if it is kept in the fueling area.

They also annouced design semi-finalists, 12 cars made it, then they later annouced Western Australia after they complained in the design tent. Pretty f'ed up if ya ask me.

I'll post back on the 12, but i know for sure:

UTA
Cornell
Ryerson

hey james,
great pictures, surprised you got time to take pictures and upload em' all .

Do you see those ETS guys around? Just wondering if they have a new car. Also, what are those stacks of batteries for?

p/s: always a fan of helsienki's bodywork

Thanks for the pics of the Auburn U car! Those guys have been so busy, it's been a tough year with 10 vital seniors departing over the last year and a half. I'm real proud of them for not only getting there, but building a car quite different than the 2004 car in many ways.

How about some comments on cars from people at the comp?? I wanna know some details!

On another note, I talked to AU's team and they did not make semis. But only 12 (er, 13) cars made it? Wow! They can have up to 20, so that just means the judges thought there weren't that many cars up to snuff I guess. Suprising! There were 19 cars last year.

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Does anybody know the teams who passed to semifinals?

Teams in the Design SemiFinals

Started at 7:00pm and it is still going on now at 9:30pm. Dark and rainy so not a lot of people left watching it.

Teams in:

047 Lawrence Tech University (Inst)
006 Penn State Univ
015 RMIT University
081 Helsinki Polytechnic
096 Universidad Simon Bolivar
124 Ryerson University
023 Rochester Institute of Technology
005 University of Washington
001 Cornell University
087 University of Texas-Arlington
009 University of Wisconsin-Madison
032 University of Waterloo
Oh yeah and:
070 University of Western Australia

They announced all of them and then added UWA after a couple of minutes.

quote:

Originally posted by jack:
here are some car weights that we grabbed (good job leon):

Official Weight-In Excel File

Obviously with only 48 teams listed, this is not a complete list. UM-D is still pretty light on the scales, but there are at least 2-3, maybe more, cars under UM-D's 420 lbs.

Our low weight is thanks to a true KISS design scheme. Minimal amount of tubes in the frame, and the carb'd Briggs and Stratton V-Twin w/ CVT are the biggest culprits of the "added lightness". Our electronics diagram can be drawn on a napkin. We have no coolant, just a fan shroud. There's nothing extra on the car.



I took 129 pics yesterday and today, expect probably twice that many tomorrow. I got a ton of shots of the cars that made it to design finals, those are on the later pics...

(click any thumb to go to the gallery)




Comments (DO NOT QUOTE ME ON THIS STUFF):
1) Queens U single cylinder turbo, I think it might be under 400 lbs too! 2,3) Univ. of Guelph has a 4WD car, longitudinal engine. 4) Canadian team with a CLEAN turbo install.

5) Bradley Univ. was the only other team running a CVT, this one on their 4 cyl motor. 6) WICKED car from Helsinki, turbo beast makes a reported 113 hp! 7) Kanagawa was one of 2 (I think) teams with longitudinal mounted engines. 8) RMIT has a very light car, should be a top contender.

9) UTA's car sporting plenty of aero. 10) Helsinki again, sex on wheels. 11) Perrenial powerhouse Cornell. 12) Carnegie Mellon's 4th year car has a shot at placing really well this time around.

To RiNaz
Hi my name is jude and i am on the ETS formula sae team
we will be unveiling our new car at formula student this year
thanks for the interest in our car

JUDE BERTHAULT
Steering Director
ETS formula sae

Vaaamos team!
estan entre los chivos q mas mean! sigan asi..
Jacobo.. mañana suelta ese croche sin miedo...
marcel... vuelvete loca..
ian .. no lo rompas..
erick.. eso no es una moto, puedes darle duro en curvas..
gustavo... dale pateishion

I doubt i'll be at the Formula Student this year, hope you guys take a lot of pictures and share with us all.

I remember taking videos of your car, and 30 mins after, i'll be like ... "damn, that's a nice car ... waitttt ... that's the same ETS car i just saw half an hour ago" ... and believe me ... this happened at least twice. Either im blind or your car is just so darn hot

My third set of pictures is up now.

First set
Second set

(that makes something like 900 pictures up so far)

We have a lot more pictures that I am hoping to get up in the next day. I keep meaning to name them and sort them but that won't happen for at least a few more days.

We snuck away for a while to catch the end of the Honda dinner. The design semifinals were still going on when we got back. They ran from 7pm to midnight.

Chavez,
Are you implying that UWA should not have been in the design finals or are you complaining that they were not announced right away?

RiNaZ,
I have some extra time because we don't have a car here this year.

weights - RMIT? Penn State?

Matthew

Penn State - 369 with a 4 cylinder, pretty impressive. I've heard RMIT is 380 but haven't seen the sticker myself.

Off to get in line for skidpad and accel...