Baja SAE Alabama 2009 Picture/Video Thread

Here's a link to our car running the suspension event.  We were try to baby it through so we at least got a time in.  I will post pics later of why we were not 100%

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLVWC4sexxw 

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=79466&id=700193245
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=79476&id=700193245
http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=700193245#/album.php?id=811447972&aid=71826

Edited by karman1970 - 2009-Apr-21 at 5:50pm

Here's the video of me flipping our car on the suspension event:

Edited by Redhawk_Racing - 2009-Apr-21 at 10:08pm

Originally posted by dillon_b12 Wes,Glad you guys liked our rearend.Didn't you all break a spindle?  I watched a car break one where I was working carnage and I'm pretty sure it was you guys.  If it was you, good job on getting the car back together.

No on the spindle(I guess that's good). But we lost the idler sprocket and snapped the chain on the primary about 2 hours in. Cost us about 45 minutes because we were almost to the start/finish when it happened. Had to run almost another full lap to get that one to count. We were up to 21st from 64th before that happened. Dropped to 37th and came back to 31st. Clutch was slipping by the end too. I hear they're already started on the transaxle for next year...

Redhawk_Racing: Nice catch with the Hilux. Wish I had ventured to the upper pits and seen that. 

Here's what our aluminum sprocket and hub looked like after we lost round 1 with the culvert...

OOh .... great carnage and pics!

Ask and you shall recieve.  It broke out around the ball joint at the bottom.  We'll have to run the backup steel Banshee parts for Oregon, but expect rev 2.0 on those uprights for Wisconsin.

Here are some pictures of the broken gear (and it's replacement) that took us out of the race before it even started. I fixed it today in about 2 hours, I just didnt have what I needed in Auburn.

It broke right at the keyway (Holy stress concentration, Batman!), and then proceeded to break into 4 pieces. I think part of the breakage was from being dragged out by the ATV. There are some nice gouges in the other gears too.

On the original gear, I machined off the hub, so this time I am leaving the hub on for more material. Hopefully this works. I'm planning on driving the piss out of it this weekend and then taking another look at it if it survives. Its my quick-and-dirty-but-might-work solution. Other ideas include decreasing the bore size and using a sleeve to keep the same bearing, or possibly going to a splined setup (ideal, but not easy), or a bunch of other ideas.




Edited by adrive7 - 2009-Apr-22 at 10:38pm

Joe,
Where did you get the gear from?

The Gear is from Martin Gear. 20 Tooth 16 Pitch. 3/4" Bore with a 3/16" Keyway. I can get any bore/key I want, but I doubt they will run splines for me. The external splines probably wouldn't be too hard to have my sponsor do, but internal splines they have to pay another guy to do.

Another option which requires finding some super bearings is cutting the gear teeth straight onto the shaft, so it's all one part. Which would be super awesome. But the way the box is setup now, it wouldn't work. I either have to find some goofy bearings/seals, or remake the casing.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Daniel.J.Johnson5/MiniBajaAuburnAlabama09#5327331639511351362


100th Post!

Thanks man, also if anybody has pictures of me endo'ing the car before the short line I'd love to see them.  I've got some shots of just afterward, but none of the event itself.

One of the volunteers we had is a big-up at BMW in SC.

Hey guys just updated the youtube account with a couple of vids! check them out. here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/user/UDBAJASAE 

Originally posted by kenneth.mandeville http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=523966659825&ref=nf Not sure if that video works if your not on facebook, eventually there will be one on youtube.

Worked for me. Nice vid! Looks like you guys had a great time!

Hey guys I thought I would post up the pics I took.  I am from Clemson, and told many of you guys that I would get these pics up on the web.  If any of you know of other sites please feel free to post a link there as well.  I have pics of many of your cars, and would like to get them out to everyone possible. 
http://s642.photobucket.com/albums/uu148/ClemsonBajaSae/Baja%20Sae%20Alabama%202009/


Edited by David D - 2009-May-18 at 7:26pm

Originally posted by dillon_b12 Wes, Glad you guys liked our rearend.

-Is that a dual sprocket reduction or a gearbox...can't tell

oh nice...that definitely is one of the best looking rears I've seen

Originally posted by OctoberSky oh nice...that definitely is one of the best looking rears I've seen