Reporting in from the Yukon

Wow things are looking great guys! Too bad my delicious looking insulating foam turned to unbaked nonedible pastry. Maybe we can forget about sponsorship and hold toxic bake sales to raise the yearly budget? Anyhow, what's this secret to unlimited mileage that you guys came out with during your outing? It's not the muscular hamster in the engine idea is it? Cuz it threatened a walk out if we dont give it dental benefits and paid stat holidays...

-FerociousFirmy

Engine oil and oily sushi

Yesterday, *looks at clock*... two days ago we had an interesting time. Robbie stopped by looking all business. Glad to see him enjoying his new job.

We also finally discovered the source of the oil leaking from our engine. After pumping some shop air into the case, we notice oil spewing out of the pores at the bottom of the case. BAD CASTING. Oil was seeping out through localized porosity near the bottom of our crank case on the flywheel side. I would suggest to any of the teams reading this to make sure their engine doesn't have similar issues. Thank you B&S for the BS!

Andrew bled for the team. Also notice where we had to seal our great engine near the raw knuckle.

After a long day at supermileage, me, super jon, andrew and batman went for all-you-can-eat sushi for 10 bucks at Yukiyama (sp?). It was pretty good. We happened to discover the secret to infinite mileage while we were there.

Omen from the ika karaage

ol school eh!

A wee bit of supermileage history lore: our good ole Canadians...

University of Saskatchewan: 5691MPG eh



we're working on it.... at least we have an NHL team... see you all

Fibery Goodness

Today Jon and I discovered another eerie resemblance between things at supermileage and pastries. Not only did Firman's quick expanding foam turn into a sponge cake, but now the image of the Pilsbury Dough Boy has appeared on our vehicle. He seems to have a surprised look on his face. Kinda like this : 0 "hoo hoo..."

In other news, the bond fasteners have been installed. Here is what the front one looks like:

Kinda like a ski pole?

UBC SHL Takes First Place!

Congrats to our buddies on the Super Heavy Lift team who took 1st place this weekend with a payload of 48lbs! That's really awesome! Congrats to Heavy Lift as well who got 8th Place! To give you an idea of what the teams do, they both build planes that carry large loads into the air and eventually come hurdling down towards the earth.

You can go see more info here, but a warning that the Super Heavy Lift site is pretty old... :

• SHL
• HL

Super Heavy Lift indeed. It's supporting one guy in the cockpit and one on the wing!

On another note, we noticed that DAP expanding foam eerily resembles whipping cream. mmm... whipping cream.

New Chassis Complete

Instead of using grossly inefficient wheels in the front, the team has opted for a new solution.

Inspired by Mr. Flintstone, the team will be utilizing feet to power the next generation of fuel efficiency vehicles. No longer will coast and burn be necessary as the team could now 'run' infinitely. As one team member stated in awe, "It's like the vehicle doesn't need any gas at all".

Lookin' Shiny

This year's chassis has been completed. Being made out of a 200 kg solid slab of 6061-T6 aluminum, it took more than 20 hours to CNC. Is has been dubbed the monorock (monobloque) method.

The Little Dyno that couldn't...

Now they did everything that they could for the little black box. They drained him dry, nearly flipping him bellyside-up, checked for clogs and nasty bits, made sure he was primed, and gave him a nice re-taping. With a crank of the engine and a puff of smoke, the Little Dyno pumped along. He spun his impellers with all his might, but to everyone's dismay only vacuum pressures formed.

Testing of engine seemed okay today, with a few hiccups. The dyno is definately not cooperating with us. Better luck tommorrow.

Those spring cables should do the trick!

ALLRIGHT PUNKS

now i'd like to assure you all that I hadn't been drinking. I really would. But as it is i'm just gonna harp on your punk-asses. time to kick it in gear yo! get with the times! post some blogs! make some mileage... super mileage!! wrooooo!

also i would like to suggest a reduction in pants. don't you hate pants?

good night everybody.. punk asses..

ADMIN FerociousFirmy: Obviously, at this point Schmitt WAS wasted and probably spilled some bzzr on his pants. "don't you hate pants?"

Supermileage gets with the times

I started thinking to myself amidst all the studying - what was supermileage missing to get updated with the times? Why, a blog of course.

This is my first time using a blog, but hopefully it can be used to put a more personal slant on supermileage and also bring the supermileage community a little bit closer together.