2005 SAE Supermileage Competition

Event Website

Host Organization

Society of Automotive Engineers

Date

06/09/2005

Description

This contest is open to high school teams, and numerous high school teams competed in 2005. The registration fee is $250. Engines are provided free of charge.

The vehicle must be conceived, designed and fabricated by the team members without direct involvement from professional engineers, faculty or professionals in the racing community. The team should be prepared to discuss/explain their design if asked to do so by the organizers.

The vehicle must have a minimum of three wheels contacting the ground at all times. Vehicle length, width, and height will not be regulated. The driver must be fully enclosed within the body of the vehicle to prevent driver contact with the pavement.

Each vehicle will be required to demonstrate its lateral stability. The vehicle, with the qualified driver, must maintain full wheel contact with a ramp of 15 degrees (measured from horizontal) when located statically on the ramp to the following configuration. One front wheel and one rear wheel of the vehicle must contact a horizontal line on the ramp with the vehicle in full right and left turn configuration. No supporting structure or wheel contact is permitted on the ramp below the horizontal line.

Engine: BRIGGS & STRATTON MODEL 93302-0016-E1

For over twenty years, the Briggs & Stratton Corporation has generously provided engines to the SAE Supermileage teams without charge. All vehicles must use the same base engine supplied to each entrant by Briggs & Stratton Corporation (Model 93302-0016-E1). The engine is air cooled, four cycle, with a 2.61 kw (3.5 horsepower) rating at 3600 rpm.

Teams will be eligible to receive a new Briggs & Stratton engine in every second competition season in which they participate. Engines are allocated on the basis of one engine per vehicle per two seasons of participation.