Earlier this week, forum member Stinger1982 arranged for a group of Formula SAE students from McGill University in Canada to visit Rehagen Racing in Livionia, Michigan to learn about race car setup and the importance of FSAE to their career prospects in the automotive industry. Not so co-incidentally, the student's mentor is forum member PTRocks!

I managed to get a couple days off of work to go up and check out the race shop and cars while the FSAE demo was going on--here are the pictures!


NASA ST2 Racer:


The Rehagen team was in the middle of moving into this new facility, so only a portion of the hardware is here on display:


Had a couple extra cars to show off as well:




AI Racer and Cobra-R Clone:




Aluminator Crate Engine:


Caged Body for FR500GT Racer...not too many of these in existence anymore:


Example of completed FR500GT:


Interior or RTR-C Carbon Mustang


Subtle Vinyl Striping on top of the Carbon:




Team manager/driver Dean Martin pointing out some of the goodies in the shop to PTRocks, the FSAE mentor:


Getting ready to check the setup on the FSAE car:


#59 FR500C--2009 Grand Am GS Championship Car:


They've got a few other trophies, too:




Cutaway of Ford's EcoBoost Twin-Turbo setup:


Dean Martin explaining vehicle dynamics to the students:


Team Owner Larry Rehagen and Ford/GM Engineers shooting the **** while the students work on the car:


Cockpit of the #52 NASA ST2 car:


Anyone need a BOSS 302 crate engine?:


Making some adjustments to the car:


One of the Ford Engineers (Forum member JScottGT) is a fellow track rat:


Forum member Overboost's 2011 Mustang GT:




Finishing up prep on the FSAE car for the night:



Rehagen Info:
Web: http://www.rehagenracing.com/news.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rehagen

 

Incredibly jealous beyond words! Thanks for sharing

 

Thx for sharing Drew, i see Chris standing with both hands in his pockets.
Must've been a great experience.

 

Yeah it was a fun trip! I didn't get really any pics of the shop that they are moving out of, but they have crate engines and transmissions/parts/car bodies/ racecars, etc everywhere and it's a big facility.

 

I just saw this. That was a really fun night.

No pictures of your sexy host?!?!?!?

 

That was a great night. Lots of good times. It was great meeting you Drew.

 

Oh. I can post some of those when I get home if you want
Likewise man!

 

Awesome. Jealous!

 

Looks like a fun time was had by all. Chris, what class are you teaching?

 

I don't teach a class. I advise/supervise teams of mech students who are doing their final year capstone design project course. I get various types of projects, but usually ones with the SAE competitions, since I was a participant as an undergrad.

This was the first year that an advisor had accompanied the team to the competition. The professors are not interested in the work the students do. Everything here is research, research, research... :-(

 

Here you go, us and a slab of beef... [It's from Schwartz's, for those in the know...]

 

Ha! Sounds like my old ME undgrad stuff

 

sdfadfads

 

There are some sexy dudes in that pic LOL.

 

lol!

 

i love the looks of the gt500 rims on the cobra R clone