FSAE Australia

I'm kinda surprised UCSD even has a team again, although I guess it's been awhile. ;-) My second year not only did the school provide zero support for the team, the even went so far as to lock us out of the student machine shop where we were building the car a couple times. I put in a couple hundred hours TIG welding the tubular space frame design we used the second year. Probably a bad idea, we probably could have done ok just modifying the chassis we used the first year. The 2nd car was better, and crap load faster with a turbo charged Yamaha 600, but we pretty much finished the car in the parking lot in Detroit, so we were tuning as we went. We ended up pulling 84hp on the dyno, which was 2nd for the field, but we stuck the turbo after that and had to convert back to n/a and remap the whole fuel injection tune the night before the endurance race to even make an appearance.

It was a heck of a ride though, and I learned a ton. I still use some of the things I learned back then when I build my cars now.