Things I love about Formula SAE

[Mikey Antonakakis]

Originally posted by Drew Price:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mikey Antonakakis:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Discretely elite:
-Falling asleep on the creeper while under the car

Our creeper is the floor lol </div></BLOCKQUOTE>



Our creeper is a junior who is named Kyle.



Best,
Drew </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh in that case our creeper is our president, Ryan


I [really like] a mermaiiiiiiiiid

[Mikey Antonakakis]

-megasquirt
-autotune
-T-Pain

[jaca]

-ungineering
-that healthy welding tan
-that's what she said jokes
-getting pissed when the first thing people ask is 'what kind of mileage does it get'
-learning how to build pretty much anything
-getting epoxied to things
-questionable use of the mappgas torch

[overdrive535]

Having to machine the fuel rail twice

Having the fuel rail warp from welding heat twice
(bastardized aluminum)

Living with your sister because school is out and you're still machining

Metal Chips in your beard

60/40 Rosin Core Solder

South Bend Lathes that need to be rebuilt

Re-Loading the OS on the Ez-Path
(I spent two weeks tracking down a 15 year old keyboard so I could hit a Y key!)

Learning you are allergic to raw carbon fiber after hauling the seat home

Kum and Go 200 oz Mugs

Moving shops in the middle of fabrication

EDIT:
The weird crap that happens after hour twenty
(When a full grown man who now works on Nuclear Reactor design runs around telling people that they kicked his dog in an Indian accent, that cannot happen any other place)

[flavorPacket]

-sex while smelling like lathe coolant
-late night slushie runs where everyone drives their own car so we essentially have a race
-impersonating Claude while doing QC
-asking freshmen to touch things that have just been welded
-actually touching it when I was a freshman
-being excited to leave the shop at 1:45 so we can make last call at the bar in shop clothes

[Mark TMV]

- starting a team with $250 CAD, no shop, a few mates and a ton of enthusiam
- seeing most of the mates disappear as their enthusiasm dies
- building a car with just four people
- breaking another cutter due to total lack of machining skills
- making fun of "juniors" for breaking another cutter due to total lack of machining skills
- fixing juniors' fudge-ups
- sleeping in a Penske rental truck at Michigan with six other dudes (because we're broke)
- the smell inside the Penske truck after three days of competition

[JamesWolak]

Originally posted by Mikey Antonakakis:

-not knowing what day it is

^So true


FlavorPacket you are very sick. Mixing formula and sex is this most disgusting thing i can imagine. Specially when you smell like machining coolant. Makes me gag just thinking about it.



My formula favs:

That we play the Daft Punk station on pandora 20/24 hrs a day.

That i can open any door in the school with a Qdoba card or a piece of sheet metal.

That in the last month we have gone through more oil then E-85.

Talking in a Borat voice non stop. Even in serious conversation.

Bitching non stop about CoG, weight, and yaw. Even though i am a powertrain guy.

Putting every failed electrical component in the microwave and claiming "its going to fix it"

[Auerbach]

Holy hell, being an alum, this thread brought a tear to my eye.

-being asked 'how fast does it go?' 1.2 million times
-'I slept with your sister' jokes (usally a joke)
-balsa wood airplane+gas+match = poor man's fireworks
-justifying a comfortable seat with the reason that I will at some time sleep in it
-Competing with team mates for who could pick up a girl at a bar using only 'I build racecars' as an opening line
-Always smelling like machining oil

My friends still call the roadster I'm building a "go-kart" and I still want to punch them in the face.

[Buckingham]

-being asked if we've ever taken it on an oval

-volunteering to sit in the chassis during the 3am alignment for driving the next day because it will probably be the only sleep I get all night

[Brua82]

-Falling asleep in the back seat of your car at 4:00 A.M. then waking up at 6:30 to load the trailer you just bought and leave for California driving all the way through strait, cuz your car still wasn't running.