Formula SAE 2005 Competition: Detroit - Updates, Pictures, Stories, and More.

[Charlie]

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.

[Oliver]

Does anybody know the teams who passed to semifinals?

[James Waltman]

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.

[Dan G]

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)

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Comments (DO NOT QUOTE ME ON THIS STUFF):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.

[terra_dactile]

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

[Alejandro]

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

[RiNaZ]

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

[James Waltman]

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.

[Matt N]

weights - RMIT? Penn State?

Matthew

[Denny Trimble]

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...