'06 SAE Competition Gallery

SMV - Michigan - 2006

Jun 12, 2006 - 201 Photos

SAE Automotive Engineering International Article

Congradulations Team! The Cal Poly Supermileage Team made it into the August 2006 issue of SAE's Automotive Engineering International magazine. The article is under the "Tech Briefs" section of the August issue.


Here is a link to the online version of the magazine.

Here is a link to the article

Here is an alternate link to the article.

End of the 2006 Competition

It's been a fun and exciting first year. A lot has been learned and we are in the process of making and "Improvements for next year"s list. We're going to keep the same shape, but redo the entire bottom and top if we can get the carbon. The car is also going to go on a steel diet. All the uprights for next year will hopefully be composites and the engine development will hopefully take place.

Goals for the engine:

• overhead cam
• smaller displacement (50 cc instead of 150)
• fuel injected
• lighter body

Goals for the car:

• get rid of all the steel
• put 2 layers of 45 degrees carbon to prevent twisting of the chassis
• lighter engine mounting plate
• higher gear ratio
• more testing
• look prettier!

Videos of the Competition 4

Ivy Tech, Penn State, & Cal Poly

Cal Poly on banked turn

Cal Poly & Ivy Tech 2 coasting

Cal Poly & Ivy Tech

Videos of the Competition 3

Cal Poly Starting

Cal Poly Starting

Cal Poly on the straight away

Eaton doing some semi jack knifing testing

Videos of the Competition 2

UMass

UMass, Windsor & British Columbia

York College of Pa

Central Michigan

Videos of the Competition 1

Laval University Starting

Chisago University

University of British Columbia Starting

University of British Columbia and Mater Dei High School

The Trip Home

We had to travel 2500 miles back to CA in 3 days so that our Formula team could have the van and trailer.

David hugging the dinosaur at a gas station in the middle of Colorado

Estevan passed out in the back of the van

Jason passed out in the back of the fan

And of course, me passed out in the back of the van

Cal Poly 2006

Results:

• 6th place out of 17 schools with 861 mpg
• 1 of two school with a monocoque chassis and composite roll bar. (The other school was Cal Berkeley)
• Definately turned heads with the quality of the layups and the surface finish.
• Learned a lot about what to do next year!

She's so sexy.

What a nose.

British Columbia checking out our surface finish while waiting for tech inspection.

David, Estevan, & Josh doing the oral examination. We were the first to do this examination in the history of SAE SuperMileage!

Other Schools Part 2

E.T.S. or the University of Quebec. Last year they had a car about twice the size. They placed ahead of us in this years competition, even though they only got 1 or 2 runs in.

University of Laval. They placed 2nd this year.

The University of British Columbia with Cal Poly behind them.

A picture of the garage during the Aesthics Award voting.