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Hi, im new to the forum, this is my cliche "Im new" post, My names dan, im 15(on the 18th), im looking at doing a high power FSAE type car, probly Haybusa powered, it is going to be made for Solo1/Solo2 racing, i was wondering if you guys no of anywhere i can get designs for this type of car, any info would be great, thnx.

I dont feel like it.

[Richard Lewis]

A bit of a reality check here...

Personally I think you'll be in WAY over your head driving a hyabusa powered car before you even get your drivers licenese...

Expect to pay big bucks for plans for something like this... I don't know of any FSAE teams that sell their plans, and more than likely they wouldn't work for you anyway. (the hyabusa puts out 2.5x the power we see in these cars, so a FSAE design wouldn't likely withstand the increased loads)

I don't know your background, maybe you've been driving race cars allready, or karting, or what-have-you. Knowing what I know now... I'd not expect many people could handle this type of car that you describe.

To answer the origional question, take a look in racecar engineering magazine and race tech magazine, and look in the back where they list car manufacturers. That might get you going in the right direction.

One other thing, these FSAE cars are often made with ~$250,000 worth of machines at our disposal. A functional machine shop is a must if you want to produce something like this.

Hope I haven't stepped on any toes... I see posts like this all the time on other forums with people not really knowing what they are getting into. No offense intended.

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Yea, i can see exactly where your coming from, and to clear afew things up.

I have the facilitys of Lime Creek motorsports, and possibly Madman and co racing, GTP and other various places, i myself have about 50k worth of welding tools, and snap on box's full of tools, one person who is helping is a pro welder, along with other people who have been doing this type of stuff for years, Were guessing for the chassis alone, were going to spend about $200, Then were going to fabricate all of our own parts except the powerplant, and that may be a custom, but we are trying to find a haybusa powerplant, and the 200HP is only a starting base, once this project is fully done, when im 18, we are wanting to have in the 400HP range, it seems ubsurd, but the only thing we really have to worry about is engine, and funds, and hte funds really wolnt be a problem, cause all we have to do it buy the aprts, and also, what about tired, would it be possible to use rims from a donut?

I dont feel like it.

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I dont feel like it.

[stscxr]

You could always pay one of us to design it for you if funds aren't a problem.

Where should we start the bidding?

Ian
UC Davis FSAE

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Na, i like building my own monsters, But if anyone has a design for one that they could send me, it would be great.

I dont feel like it.

[Frank]

Tell you what,

If you make a $1000 (US) donation to our team,
I'll e-mail you a "parasolid" file of the whole car (12.7Meg)

http://www.uq.edu.au/fsae/cad4.htm

[stscxr]

Thats what I'm saying. You seem to not know how to design one so thats what the price would cover. If you can actually manage to build it, good for you.

Lets see, to make a great understatement of the time involved in the design lets pretend it only take 2000 man-hours to design a decent car. That's less than 8 hours a week for 5 people for a year. I feel we're worth atleast $20.00 per hour. So that'd be $40,000.00. When will you have the check ready?

Ian

[Dominic Venieri]

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Lets see, to make a great understatement of the time involved in the design lets pretend it only take 2000 man-hours to design a decent car. That's less than 8 hours a week for 5 people for a year. I feel we're worth atleast $20.00 per hour. So that'd be $40,000.00. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

We figure about 10,000 hours get put into our car each year, so at an average hourly rate of $25.00; $250,000 + materials to build one of our cars

www.formularpi.com

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One of the people hleping is a qauntum physics major, another is a mechincal engineering major, who has done FSAE before, so im sure we could design it, and were not designing it to FSAE specs, where gona chop it up, make it as light as possible, and be able to hold the massive engine.

I dont feel like it.