SMV 2005: Revenge of '04

Last year's trip to the supermileage competition left some unfinished business to be taken care of this year. In 2004 a series of minor but costly incedents (blown tire, thrown chain, flooded engine compartment, melted starter relay) prevented the completion of a mileage run. That car was back this year, improved and ready to go, complete with the brand new fuel injected engine.

This year was not without its issues, however it was still night and day in comparison. Kevin and Dylan spent plenty of nights not sleeping working on the map of the fuel injection. A rare few teams run fuel injection on their vehicles. We were the only one that wrote our own program to run it. While not being perfect by competition time, the car still performed very well, grabbing 4th place. Doing that well despite this, we can rest assured that the body that Mike designed last year and the engine Kevin, Chris, and Andrew designed in 102B was of quality and that all and all we are heading in the right direction.

The trip out to Michigan was also much better, sans the Nevada tire incidents of last year. We went through a bit of a thunderstorm and hale in Nebraska, but no dodging of tornados this time around.

2005 Supermileage Results (Top 7)
1. University of British Columbia (1608.42 mpg)
2. Ecole de Technologie Superieure (1584.45)
3. Ivy Tech State College - Indiana (1529.35)
4. University of California, Berkeley (772.78)
5. Laval University Quebec (769.06)
6. University of Windsor (764.65)
7. Penn State University Behrend (447.46)