Hi Eshu,

If you had taken the time to come past our pit I would have been more than happy to show you why our car was different to last years. Side by side they look quite different, and in the sub systems, well I can't think of one that was carried over. That yellow paint scheme though tends to look familiar =]

Back on track though, I would like to congratulate UW-M despite all the rivalry I must say they had a very impressive car. I found it very interesting to see your car up close in design and check out your boards. Lots of great information there. We thought we had you with your out of order run in enduro but it was not to be. Michigan turbo and extractors were really cool to look at also! North Carolina's car had to be one of the greatest looking cars I've seen in a while too, nice lines. The entrance of rotary dampers is pritty exciting and seeing how many teams have begun making their own dampers also shows how unique FSAE is - and how people are really looking at the factors that make these cars fast and developing them. TUGraz had a very cool casting hanging off the back of the car, definatly something I think alot of poeple will be copying...

Cincinatti, Akron and Oakland were great to host us out and about and in a place to stay so thanks alot to you guys - we had heaps of fun.

As always I can't wait to see the designs everyone comes up with next time!

Mike,
Please check your PMs
Pat

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Originally posted by Mike Claffey:
If you had taken the time to come past our pit I would have been more than happy to show you why our car was different to last years. Side by side they look quite different, and in the sub systems, well I can't think of one that was carried over. That yellow paint scheme though tends to look familiar =]

I'm sure you're right. Out of curiousity, what would you say were your unique design choices this year compared to the ones for the highly successful FSL-005?

Mike:

Send me an email at the address below, I have a couple of questions for ya.

It was great to hang around you guys all week, hopefully be able to make it down to Oz sooner rather than later.

Cheers!

Hey, does anyone know anything about Universidad Simon Bolivar?

I know that they have some beautiful girls on their team. Oh man!!! I also felt bad for a girl on their team because I was eating in the food tent and she was crying right after design. Spanish is rusty but she felt bad but her team was cheering her on for her effort. Bunch of nice people from my eye. Very team oriented.

http://www.formulasae.grupos.usb.ve/

I resized all of my photos and zipped them up into a single 90MB file.

http://evilengineering.com/FSAE07East_shrunk.zip

I still have double res of these shots if anyone wants specific ones.

Thanks for posting the pics guys.

Any one got anymore they want to share??

Thanks for posting that Dan.
That made it a lot easier to go through.

Why did the E85 teams have M85 fuel stickers?
http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/v/SAE/FSAE/EAST0...g2_imageViewsIndex=1

And who is this guy:
http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/v/SAE/FSAE/EAST0...g2_imageViewsIndex=1

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Why did the E85 teams have M85 fuel stickers?
http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/v/SAE/FSAE/EAST0...g2_imageViewsIndex=1

I'm thinking they just didn't have any E85 stickers so they used those instead.

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And who is this guy:
http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/v/SAE/FSAE/EAST0...g2_imageViewsIndex=1

Thats Steve Daum on the left in the blue shirt, the guy in the white on the right is Kevin Halsted of Ford MPG, and I dunno who the dude with the 'stache is. Those two Auburn guys had run from the other side of the pano shot.

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that's Steve Daum

The gentleman with the mustache is Denny Morris, also one of the Ford Michigan PG staff. Kevin and Denny were two of the Ford people that worked hard to make things go well for us this year.

Thanks all.
I knew that was Steve Daum.
I just didn't know the other guys.

Much deserved top ten finish for the crew from RIT! They have now finished with points in every event at the last 13 competitions, including 6 years in a row in Detroit. Great job guys and best of luck in Germany!

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Eshu,
I didn't catch which team you were from? Were you at the comp?

Do you really want to know, or are you suggesting there arn't any?
Did you make the same request/accusation of all the other teams that were able to produce MASSIVELY faster cars this year compared to last? First to mind - Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Florida, UTA and more. They all looked pretty similar to their earlier cars to me, that speed must have just fallen in their lap same as it did for us!

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Originally posted by Pete Marsh:
Eshu,
I didn't catch which team you were from? Were you at the comp?

Do you really want to know, or are you suggesting there arn't any?
Did you make the same request/accusation of all the other teams that were able to produce MASSIVELY faster cars this year compared to last? First to mind - Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Florida, UTA and more. They all looked pretty similar to their earlier cars to me, that speed must have just fallen in their lap same as it did for us!

That must be the UWA sincerity and friendly attitude ive been hearing about!


Fair go, im sure everyone gets the same treatment. Evolutionary vehicles look similar, and are commonly mistaken for the 'same' as last year ignorance.

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Originally posted by Pete Marsh:
Did you make the same request/accusation of all the other teams that were able to produce MASSIVELY faster cars this year compared to last? First to mind - Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Florida, UTA and more. They all looked pretty similar to their earlier cars to me, that speed must have just fallen in their lap same as it did for us!

all of those teams have had fast cars for several years (UTA has since FSAE began)...

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Originally posted by flavorPacket:

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Originally posted by Pete Marsh:
Did you make the same request/accusation of all the other teams that were able to produce MASSIVELY faster cars this year compared to last? First to mind - Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Florida, UTA and more. They all looked pretty similar to their earlier cars to me, that speed must have just fallen in their lap same as it did for us!

all of those teams have had fast cars for several years (UTA has since FSAE began)...

I could make a pretty large list of things that are different between our 07 car and the 06 car...but of course I am sure the speed was a gift of the vehicle dynamics gods.

bstoney, I don't follow. The point I was trying to make is that the fastest cars often tend to be evolutionary

FlavorPacket:

No, no, I definitely understand your point, was just trying to add to UWA's case that, even when cars are evolutionary, they tend to have some pretty different things from year to year, even if they are small to the naked eye.

No harm meant.