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1. Re: Energy Storage (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:43:19 -0800; If I had the money and resources to develop a hybrid Mini Baja, I would still build one. I'd make it as close to the rules as possible and inform the organizers ahead of time that I'd like to partici; /html/mini-baja/2005-01/msg00000.html (7,006 bytes)
2. Re: Energy Storage (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:49:36 -0800; I know they banned hybrid (and was VERY disappointed), and I heard the organizer talk about hybrids at the competition. I thought your car still had batteries in it? So in 2004 (and 2005), that viola; /html/mini-baja/2005-01/msg00002.html (10,216 bytes)
3. Re: Content of carbon (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:49:27 -0800; According to one supplier, it has a max content of .23%. http://www.smorgonsteel.com. au/pipelinesupplies/resources/documents/Seamless_Linepipe.pdf You can probably call them and ask them what the mi; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00001.html (7,323 bytes)
4. Re: mini-baja bearing question (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:41:33 -0800; I'm not aware of any regulations that says we can't use those. But then again, I might have missed something (wouldn't be the first time). What rule(s) DO YOU THINK says it's not legal to use custom; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00005.html (7,144 bytes)
5. Re: Caliper Selection (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:24:05 -0800; If memory serves, the requirement last year was that you have to have the brakes on two circuits so that if one fails, there's still braking on two tires and that you have separate reservoirs: "The v; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00007.html (8,104 bytes)
6. Re: Caliper Selection (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:55:37 -0800; I forgot to mention the rule # and page number so you can look them up yourself. Make sure you have the latest rules. I've been reading the rules since 2000 and there are still things I miss (mostly; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00010.html (7,260 bytes)
7. Re: Legal helmets? (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:03:41 -0800; I don't think they're conflicting at all. The pictures are very clear. Note that MOTO-CROSS style helmets are required. Not all full face helmets are MOTO- CROSS style. See the picture in rule 39.1,; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00016.html (7,806 bytes)
8. Re: Legal helmets? (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:54:56 -0800; I think many people ran into this last year in all three competitions (at least in West and Midwest that I attended). This year's rules has pictures to clarify what they meant and I think the wording; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00018.html (7,797 bytes)
9. Re: Forums/questions (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:06:48 -0800; Please don't forget that some teams don't communicate in english that well. Plus some of them get really nervous about not being able to find the answers. I guess all I'm saying is that I assume that; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00020.html (7,707 bytes)
10. Re: Legal helmets? (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:01:55 -0800; You won't find many motocross helmet with any of the required rating unless you go to the expensive ones. We got lucky and found a couple on the clearance rack for around $89. Usually the helmets wit; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00028.html (9,722 bytes)
11. Re: Caliper Selection (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:41:11 -0800; The diagonal split comes from the interpretation that two of the wheels must be able to be locked. 2002 rules, page 30 of the pdf: same wording as 2003, shown below 2003 rules, page 52 of the pdf: "5; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00032.html (8,930 bytes)
12. Re: brakes and helmets (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:25:31 -0800; None of the rules explicitely say "diagonal split" But when the rules say " Mini Baja vehicles must be capable of braking in a straight line with at least two wheels locked." That means it could be t; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00034.html (7,525 bytes)
13. Energy Storage (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:38:43 -0800; While we're discussing Mini Baja rules, what do you guys think about the ban on any other energy storage devices beside the hydraulic accumulator? What was wrong with the earlier rule allowing any en; /html/mini-baja/2004-12/msg00035.html (8,078 bytes)
14. Re: weight problem! (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:00:46 -0800; Please take into account that when people tell you what the weight of their frame/roll cage is you can't really compare them directly. You need to know whether they're giving you the weight of the ro; /html/mini-baja/2004-11/msg00010.html (7,692 bytes)
15. Re: weight problem! (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:47:01 -0800; Heh heh, I had the same problem. Went straight to the junk mail pile and actually had to retrieve it when I saw the original sender's address. I know that A36 has a yield strength of at least 36ksi,; /html/mini-baja/2004-11/msg00012.html (8,494 bytes)
16. Re: baja weight problem! (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:48:17 -0800; When you say frame should weigh 40-60lbs is that just the tubing or includes all of the bracketry (suspension, steering, drivetrain, engine brackets)? Also, we used 1.25x0.049 mild steel (A36) and fi; /html/mini-baja/2004-11/msg00015.html (7,373 bytes)
17. Re: Motor and tube dimensions (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:08:39 -0800; The other tubing dimensions that you can use mainly depends on what you can find locally. Use the spreadsheet (or do your own calculations, as our spreadsheets are not guaranteed correct though that'; /html/mini-baja/2004-11/msg00018.html (7,865 bytes)
18. Re: Motor and tube dimensions (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:54:05 -0800; Some of the links have been moved, but you can still go to the main page of The crude drawing of the engine (Autodesk inventor part) is still at: http://www.vikingracing.net/andre/Baja-Engine.ipt The; /html/mini-baja/2004-11/msg00019.html (7,436 bytes)
19. Re: Mini baja Guatemala (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:01:00 -0800; You can find our tech pages at: http://www.vikingracing.net/andre/article.php See if any of the documents help you. All we ask is that you let us know if something has helped you and how. We'd like t; /html/mini-baja/2004-11/msg00020.html (7,174 bytes)
20. Polaris Differential/gearbox (score: 1): Author: susantoa@pdx.edu; Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:37:12 -0800; I was wondering if any of you guys ever used the Polaris differential (part#1341442 from a Ranger). If you have, did you find any off the shelf part that will mate to the splines of the output shaft; /html/mini-baja/2004-11/msg00021.html (7,377 bytes)

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