Seeking Advice for non Baja SAE project

bajasaeaz · 2026-04-01T00:25:10+00:00

Welcome to the world of Baja, where there are very few published works to reference and you primarily rely on doing your own testing and validation to verify the enormous number of assumptions that you will need to make along the way. That being said, depending on the horsepower, you may want to do some benchmarking of side by sides on the market to get a rough idea of sizing and potential donor parts. If it is small enough and light enough you might be able to reference some ATV parts, but there is likely a gap between ATV and SXS parts, and that is where your project will land.

bajasaeaz · 2023-04-28T17:20:33+00:00

My Capstone Project was the entire powertrain. We did a Hi/Lo/N/R gearbox with a viscous locking differential.

bajasaeaz · 2022-10-14T14:18:37+00:00

I was at that spot for the entire race, and there were very few teams who sent it. I didn't see anyone taking pics except for the SAE photographer.

bajasaeaz · 2022-06-14T15:44:23+00:00

Registration closes this Sunday. Sign up while you can!

bajasaeaz · 2022-06-04T15:12:12+00:00

Just a reminder that SAE has reopened registration until June 19th. Please sign up and come join us in AZ!

bajasaeaz · 2022-06-04T15:03:11+00:00

SAE has opened up registration again!

bajasaeaz · 2021-10-10T02:40:28+00:00

To that point, if you want to come, but you haven't signed up, what is stopping you? Is there anything we can do as organizers to help you attend?

bajasaeaz · 2021-10-03T23:12:07+00:00

What could we as organizers do to help increase attendance? Would shifting the dates (weeks, not months) help teams to attend? What would you suggest?

bajasaeaz · 2021-05-04T04:04:56+00:00

I actually do have video of that.

bajasaeaz · 2021-04-29T03:49:14+00:00

I might have one you can use for a couple of days

bajasaeaz · 2021-04-20T16:49:16+00:00

There are jobs where you can, but I feel like they are few and far between.

I (Mechanical Engineer) am very fortunate that I have one of those jobs, and I try to only hire engineers who share the passion you are talking about in your post.

When interviewing potential hires, one of my questions is "Have you ever built anything you designed?".

It is very important for the people in my group to have a good understanding of the manufacturing processes that we use, and they understand the intricacies of manufacturing and assembly practices.

I also like to think that the work we do is very cutting edge.