# HVCC Builds a Forumla SAE car!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Builds\ **Created:** [December 1, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559 "2011-12-01T15:42:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roadkiller1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/roadkiller1/32/6669_2.png) [@Roadkiller1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Roadkiller1)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/1 "2011-12-01T15:42:23Z")
PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND VOTE AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN!! Local HVCC students have entered Pepsi Refresh Contest to win $25,000 grant towards a college race car engineering competition. The students are currently entered for competition in the 2012 Michigan competition and need funds to complete the race car. The Refresh contest will run the entire month of December so please visit the link below and vote for HVCC using your Facebook (or Pepsi) account. THEN PASS THIS ON!!! THANK YOU!!! [http://www.refresheverything.com/hvccfsae](http://www.refresheverything.com/hvccfsae) ---
**Author:** ![Mafdark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mafdark/32/6322_2.png) [@Mafdark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mafdark)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/2 "2011-12-01T15:45:00Z")
I didn’t know they had any SAE related majors at HVCC. Any pics of the car’s progress? ---
**Author:** ![Roadkiller1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/roadkiller1/32/6669_2.png) [@Roadkiller1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Roadkiller1)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/3 "2011-12-01T15:53:18Z")
This is the first year for HVCC FSAE, and the majority of team members are engineering students preparing for transfer to a 4 year school. HVCC will be one of very few 2 year schools to compete in FSAE. I’ll see if i can get some pictures soon. Right now the team has very limited funding and is seeking donations and sponsorship. The $2,000 entry fee money the team has raised has already been spent and the team is entered in the 2012 FSAE competition in Michigan. Sharing this link as much as possible will be a huge help to the team! ---
**Author:** ![Roadkiller1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/roadkiller1/32/6669_2.png) [@Roadkiller1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Roadkiller1)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/4 "2011-12-02T12:19:11Z")
Just an update: We’re currently ranking right around **50th out of over 500** on the Pepsi Refresh Project! Making it to the Top 10 will mean HVCC is awarded a $25,000 grant for our Formula SAE program. Keep the votes coming **by voting once per day**. If you’ve already voted for us a sincere thank you! If you haven’t, PLEASE VOTE AND SHARE!! It’s not very often Hudson Valley Community College students get to build a race car to compete with the big 4-year schools (in fact never before). [http://pep.si/s65BFU](http://pep.si/s65BFU) ---
**Author:** ![JSEnclosures](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jsenclosures/32/6678_2.png) [@JSEnclosures](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JSEnclosures)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/5 "2011-12-02T12:44:29Z")
Just wondering what your current funding is? I went to UB and we dropped our formula team a year after i graduated because we just couldn’t compete with other teams at our current funding level. We had about 15 grand allocated to our formula team + prive donations of about 5 grand a year and about 20-30grand a year in parts donations. Formula is ridiculously competitive, it’s not easy competing against teams with 100k+ budgets. ---
**Author:** ![Roadkiller1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/roadkiller1/32/6669_2.png) [@Roadkiller1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Roadkiller1)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/6 "2011-12-02T14:09:33Z")
> [@JSEnclosures"](#): > > Just wondering what your current funding is? I went to UB and we dropped our formula team a year after i graduated because we just couldn’t compete with other teams at our current funding level. We had about 15 grand allocated to our formula team + prive donations of about 5 grand a year and about 20-30grand a year in parts donations. Formula is ridiculously competitive, it’s not easy competing against teams with 100k+ budgets. Haha we’re definitely on a tight budget compared to those guys. I’m not really at liberty to speak for the groups finances but to my knowledge just about all of our initial allocations are spent. Modeling of the chassis is underway, tires and engine should be in our hands soon. Sponsorship and donation have been promising so far but nobody has given us a full commitment yet. If you have any tips we would love to hear them! Anyone else that is interested you can find out more about us at : [http://www.facebook.com/groups/250099895030583/](http://www.facebook.com/groups/250099895030583/) (request an invite and i’ll get you in) Or on our forum: [http://hvccfsae.forumer.com/index.php](http://hvccfsae.forumer.com/index.php) ---
**Author:** ![JSEnclosures](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jsenclosures/32/6678_2.png) [@JSEnclosures](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JSEnclosures)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/7 "2011-12-07T11:18:48Z")
It is pretty easy for my team, i ran the UB SAE clean snowmobile team. All you had to do was call up a company and ask for whatever part you needed and tell them your building a turbo diesel snowmobile that’s been featured in a few magazines and parts would show up at your door. There are a lot of companies that will help out, it’s a tax write off, make sure to remind them of that. Also tell them that for any donation of parts or funds you will place a decal of their business name or logo on your car that will be seen at the fsae competition and all events (plan promo events, mall shows, car shows, stuff like that). Do you guys have an engine already? If not start calling up places that buy wrecked bikes and part them out, they can use the write off and they will have a good 600cc engine for you to use. Call up places that sell wire, tubing (albany steel), batteries, anything you guys can use even if you don’t need it right this minute. To my knowledge hoosier gives away free tires to sae teams, atleast they did for us. Go to the FSAE website and look over the event sponsors, those companies likely give out free parts to competing teams. Make a long list fo what you need, and start calling up places like crazy. Any lastly, post a pic of the damn car on shift so we can see where you guys are currently at ---
**Author:** ![Phate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Phate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Phate)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/8 "2011-12-07T11:26:09Z")
wow, straight for FSAE? Personally I’d think SAE Baja would have been a lot easier to get started. I’m on my school’s Baja team, and we end only end up spending around $15k per year, and that includes actually getting to competition (this year in wisconsin). Its cheaper, and its easier to get into and get competitive. You don’t get to play with the engine at all, and you are limited to 10hp, but most other things are open, so a lot of the engineering the teams do is to make up for the lack of power with good suspension and handling. ---
**Author:** ![Roadkiller1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/roadkiller1/32/6669_2.png) [@Roadkiller1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Roadkiller1)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/9 "2011-12-10T07:01:57Z")
At this point, we’ve got a lot of intelligent, hard working, and very committed people ready for FSAE competition. Unfortunately we don’t have the budgets of some of the larger and more experienced teams. Which is exactly why we need your votes in the Pepsi Refresh Project! Please keep voting, bookmark our Refresh link so that you can vote often (once a day). You can also text “110562” to Pepsi’s number (73774). Thanks for all of your interest, votes, and tips! [http://pep.si/s65BFU](http://pep.si/s65BFU) ---
**Author:** ![JSEnclosures](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jsenclosures/32/6678_2.png) [@JSEnclosures](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JSEnclosures)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/10 "2011-12-13T06:56:46Z")
pics? what do you guys have so far? ---
**Author:** ![Mafdark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mafdark/32/6322_2.png) [@Mafdark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mafdark)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hvcc-builds-a-forumla-sae-car/261559/11 "2011-12-14T14:49:03Z")
> [@those of you with girlfriends...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/those-of-you-with-girlfriends/47114/120): > > pics? what do you guys have so far? I doubt they have anything. When I went to RIT their car was really the product of a program that had been put in place _years_ prior. corporate sponsorship, a full media/PR team, and members who dedicated 6+ years to it. Still, they often cannibalize parts off old cars to get the new ones tested in time. This is an awesome program and will offer some of the HVCC students amazing opportunities, but I wouldn’t expect them to have any results anytime soon even if thy are able to win the money from the contest.