"Biased Plies" (biased-plies)
11/25/2013 at 14:24 • Filed to: Tips, Formula 1
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"Biased Plies" (biased-plies)
11/25/2013 at 14:24 • Filed to: Tips, Formula 1 | 2
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Racecar Engineering has some nice insight into Honda's RA806E 2.4l V8 F1 engine. Lots of neat pictures of the inner workings and background on the development of the engine. Interesting to read about some of the challenges they faced coming from the V10s.
Random side note, I wonder if Honda would have won the championship(s) if the team hadn't been sold (given) to Brawn and switched to Mercedes AMG power.
EL_ULY
> Biased Plies
11/25/2013 at 14:25 |
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cooooooooool !!!!!
Mazarin
> Biased Plies
11/25/2013 at 14:30 |
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*sigh*
*unzip*
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Biased Plies
11/25/2013 at 14:34 |
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DAT Machining...
OkCars- 22k Crossroads
> EL_ULY
11/25/2013 at 14:38 |
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what is it?
McMike
> Biased Plies
11/25/2013 at 14:39 |
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Random side note, I wonder if Honda would have won the championship(s) if the team hadn't been sold (given) to Brawn and switched to Mercedes AMG power.
I doubt it, since I remember the Honda engines being down on power. I still think the cars might have run away with it at first, but RedBull would have caught up a lot sooner once Newey sorted out his own double diffuser.
IMO, Vettel would have won the championship if the team stayed Honda.- he was only 11 points behind Button at the end of the season.
If you look at the races, Newey and the other teams had that shit figured out by round 8.
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Biased Plies
> OkCars- 22k Crossroads
11/25/2013 at 14:40 |
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Pnuematic valve spring.
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> McMike
11/25/2013 at 14:44 |
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That's what I was thinking. I guess it depends on just how big that deficit was. At the bottom of the article, it says the engine produced 747hp, I'm wondering just how much more the Merc/AMG managed.
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OkCars- 22k Crossroads
> Biased Plies
11/25/2013 at 14:48 |
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riiiight! I had read that before, that they use pneumatic valve springs, but i didn't know what it looked like.
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EL_ULY
> OkCars- 22k Crossroads
11/25/2013 at 14:49 |
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valve spring or seat of some sort
Agrajag
> Biased Plies
11/25/2013 at 15:13 |
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Helping the cause.
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> Agrajag
11/25/2013 at 15:30 |
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Haha, thanks. Unfortunately I messed up and clicked it on Thursday or Friday. 506 is what I got to.
Destructive Tester
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11/25/2013 at 19:05 |
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It amazes me how much the Honda CRF 450r (dirt bike) pistons resemble the F1 pistons...
Here's the motocross piston for comparison.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Biased Plies
11/26/2013 at 14:09 |
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I don't even know where to annotate. There is so much awesome on these pistons. The ring grooves are unbelievably narrow. The pin wall is crazy narrow. The skirts are amazingly short. The bore is so much bigger than the stroke.
I used to work at a place that made pistons and looked at a lot of minivan pistons. These are from a completely different planet.
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Biased Plies
11/26/2013 at 14:15 |
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Beryllium copper valve seats and guides. There is so much cool engineering going on in these. From Wikipedia :
Beryllium copper valve seats, and valve guides are used in high performance four-stroke engines using coated titanium valves. BeCu dissipates heat from the valve up to 7 times faster than using powdered steel or iron seats & guides. The softer BeCu seats also cushions the valve which helps in reducing wear of the coating of TI valves thus increasing valve life.