Sorry Josh, gotta call you out a little bit...
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Josh Battles wrote:
>
> We're selling the old SAE mini-baja car from last year at school... it's
> made out of aluminum tube and has one seat, brakes, and steering.
An aluminum frame would have to be from 3+ years ago. steel-only since
then.
> With a 5hp
> lawnmower engine and gearbox it could be made to do 60+ mph like it did in
> competition last year...
The fastest cars do 40mph and take quite a while to get there
> It flipped end over end like 8 times and wasn't
> damaged nor was the occupant injured. I think they're looking for the scrap
> price out of it, somewhere about $500 - $700 IIRC. It only weighs about 100
> pounds.
>
a 100# car would be a miracle. 100# bare frame I'd believe from an
aluminum car. Our car this year was a lightweight at 420# complete.
Maybe I'll bring it down if Colin and I get a stronger chain in it. We
haven't touched it since midwest competition though, and I'm out of town
for 4 days this coming weekend. Hmm...
I might bring a friend with a Heep too. He's alright. We're starting a
fab shop as soon as we get a bender and he's one of a half dozen Mud Nuts
splitting off into our own club of non-politicing asses, too. Hmm, wonder
if anybody from my club will stumble across this before the other members
know. We'll see =)
-- MikeM SAS Dak Don't follow me, I won't make it!
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