Let's use this thread for updates at the 2006 FSAE West competition! Good luck to all the teams!
Let's use this thread for updates at the 2006 FSAE West competition! Good luck to all the teams!
Damn, I was just coming here to start this thread. Admin beat me to it.
I'll be there with my camera. I probably won't get as many pictures as in 2005 (1300+) but I'll see what I can do. I'll try for better updates than there were from Detroit this year.
Good luck to everyone.
Does anyone know how many teams are registered to compete?
cheers
-Ben
http://www.sae.org/servlets/collegiateCompetitionInfo?O...T_SCHED_GEN_NUM=null
71 teams registered, who knows how many will show up and compete though.
Neil Schreiber
Missouri S&T Racing
'05 - '08
http://fsae.mst.edu/
*formerly University of Missouri-Rolla
Hows the weather
UMR, are you there, hope you have some better luck then Detroit
Mike Duwe
UWP Alumni
Former Drivetrain Leader and Team Captain
http://www.weather.com/weather/local...om=search_cityOriginally posted by drivetrainUW-Platt:
Hows the weather
80's and 90's
Its going to be HOT. High 80s to low 90s. However, it always feels hotter than that in Fontona. (edit: Damn you Aaron! You got to it first!)
Yeah we're there (unfortunately I couldn't afford to go).
Thanks, we're hoping so too. Every part of Detroit was a disaster/disappointment this year. Hopefully we can redeem ourselves this week though.
Neil Schreiber
Missouri S&T Racing
'05 - '08
http://fsae.mst.edu/
*formerly University of Missouri-Rolla
I'm pretty sure it's actualy the surface of the sun dude..Originally posted by Mark Bacchetti:
However, it always feels hotter than that in Fontona.
-Aaron G>
Any other teams from other coutries have problems getting their car in? We were first told that the US "does not want that, take it back to Canada", then told to make a formal entry, then we couldn't find a broker to do this for us for a number of hours, so we were kicked out of the US border inspection area 5 hours later, make phone calls and such, then finally a nice borker wrote up a letter dropping a whole bunch of names of border officers, and tariff headings that was accepted and we got through about 20 hours after we had initially planned, with about 12 being in limbo dealing with the border. They managed to belittle our university, young people, Canadians, and it was just a very pleasurable experience in general. The border patrols had told us to get a Carnet, or TIB (Temporary Importation Bond) which were both pretty expensive, and the brokers weren't sure how to deal with a TIB because it was a vehicle and they needed EPA, NHTSA, and DOT documents even though we were busy trying to tell everybody it was a go kart, rather than a car.