Ill see if i can find some pics of my old banshee. That bitch was lower than some of those gay ass vws. Probably faster.

 

American muscle is where it's at. Thumbs up.

 

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well something different shits dope bec she got skills

 

 

 

Good find. That's our FSAE car. Those are centerlock magnesium BBS wheels by the way, there are 3 sets of that type in the country (1 set gold, 2 sets black) and they all belong to us.

It's really too bad we don't do carbon monocoque chassis any more, they were so much sexier. I haven't been involved since we moved to tube frame chassis after the big rules change about 2 or 3 years ago.

 

What motor do you run in those? When we've parted out SXV's from our shop we sold a few motors to some FSAE teams. Just curious what the common choice/rule is, as I am unfamiliar with the whole SAE thing.

 

That car runs a pre-production 2010 R6 engine, it's basically an early dyno test engine that was donated to the school by Yamaha. The SXV/RXV engines are really sweet, but a lot of the schools have had some serious problems with them cooking the undersized starter motors and some other failures I can't remember. We had looked at those, but it appeared that the development costs were going to be too high and the safety margin too low. I would actually love to use the Yamaha Genesis 80FI snow machine engines, they're like a pair of YZF250 engines put together but they use a CVT so some type of external transmission would have to be used. Yamaha was rumored to have been thinking about using that engine with an integral transmission for the next Banshee (or was it Blaster, I always get my names wrong) which IMO would be the ultimate FSAE engine.

 

Understood, I was just curious because like you had stated about the SXV motors we end up rebuilding about every 18 hours of track time on our race bikes. For what the motor was designed to do, I have yet to ride anything of similar comparison. But reliability sucks huge dicks.

But your FSAE cart looks super impressive