Anyone know anything about the Baja?
11-29-2007, 04:04 AM
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Re: Anyone know anything about the Baja?
Step #1 right now is to form a club here at VT for the Baja, mostly to give us official status when we're fund raising--"VT Baja suchandsuch" sounds a lot better than "Guys in a Junkyard" when your asking for donations or having a car wash to raise money! If all goes well, we're going to pick up the paperwork for that tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised if the club consists of just us and our circle of friends slash known interested parties for the remainder of this year. I don't think we'd even be official until Fall 2008, but that's ok.
Next we start scrapyard diving over Xmas and summer breaks and see what we can turn up. As I said, we already have a sizable cache of parts and tools/shop space--one of our drivers' father owned an auto shop and kept the equipment.
We need a couple of things more than anything:
-The bloody truck (we don't even need a working one, mostly we just need a frame/chassis)
-Sand/Baja tires
-Oversized fuel tanks? Depends...
-As much info on the Baja as we can turn up
-Monies!
Eventually, we're toying with the idea of trying to run the race on alternate fuels of some kind (biodesil, hydrogen, solar, whatever), but for now I want the experience running the race once without having to complicate things with extra variables. I think it'd be a good project for the club to work on while we're twiddling our thumbs waiting for race day, and it definitely is more respectable than "we made a club cuz we wanna race so there." Anyhow, its currently on the "Gee Wiz" list, but considering thats where the Baja was a few weeks ago, it'll be explored thoroughly.
Next we start scrapyard diving over Xmas and summer breaks and see what we can turn up. As I said, we already have a sizable cache of parts and tools/shop space--one of our drivers' father owned an auto shop and kept the equipment.
We need a couple of things more than anything:
-The bloody truck (we don't even need a working one, mostly we just need a frame/chassis)
-Sand/Baja tires
-Oversized fuel tanks? Depends...
-As much info on the Baja as we can turn up
-Monies!
Eventually, we're toying with the idea of trying to run the race on alternate fuels of some kind (biodesil, hydrogen, solar, whatever), but for now I want the experience running the race once without having to complicate things with extra variables. I think it'd be a good project for the club to work on while we're twiddling our thumbs waiting for race day, and it definitely is more respectable than "we made a club cuz we wanna race so there." Anyhow, its currently on the "Gee Wiz" list, but considering thats where the Baja was a few weeks ago, it'll be explored thoroughly.
11-29-2007, 04:28 AM
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Re: Anyone know anything about the Baja?
Wouldn't complain if we could, but for the life of me I can't find them on the school website. Are you sure they officially registered?
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11-29-2007, 08:17 AM
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i'm a member of Darkside Offroad or DSO. one of the other guys just got back from baja. he was driving a chase truck for them. his username is akxj. you should swing by the site and start asking a few questions. there's a wealth of knowlege there. www.dso4x4.com/forum
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11-29-2007, 12:28 PM
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Right, so, paperwork turned in, fairly painless process. We are now officially the Rally Club @ Virginia Tech, unless something goes FUBAR in the filing process.
quick--
actually chatted briefly with those guys a week or so ago. Nice group. However seeing as they get all their money from sponsors and donations, I doubt they'd be willing to put any up
. Technically I believe they're the same class of organization we are, albeit more established.
wheelin-
you are now my best friend. Don't have time at this exact moment, but I'll be studying that site later tonight!
quick--
actually chatted briefly with those guys a week or so ago. Nice group. However seeing as they get all their money from sponsors and donations, I doubt they'd be willing to put any up
. Technically I believe they're the same class of organization we are, albeit more established.wheelin-
you are now my best friend. Don't have time at this exact moment, but I'll be studying that site later tonight!
11-29-2007, 04:27 PM
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Re: Anyone know anything about the Baja?
Right, so, paperwork turned in, fairly painless process. We are now officially the Rally Club @ Virginia Tech, unless something goes FUBAR in the filing process.
quick--
actually chatted briefly with those guys a week or so ago. Nice group. However seeing as they get all their money from sponsors and donations, I doubt they'd be willing to put any up. Technically I believe they're the same class of organization we are, albeit more established.
wheelin-
you are now my best friend. Don't have time at this exact moment, but I'll be studying that site later tonight!
quick--
actually chatted briefly with those guys a week or so ago. Nice group. However seeing as they get all their money from sponsors and donations, I doubt they'd be willing to put any up
. Technically I believe they're the same class of organization we are, albeit more established.wheelin-
you are now my best friend. Don't have time at this exact moment, but I'll be studying that site later tonight!
well, good luck. i don't know about where the money comes from, but i know that the auto cross guys had stuff donated.
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