Please Enlighten Me

"Goggles Pizzano" (gogglespizzano) 07/13/2014 at 01:15 • Filed to: None

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Why is there (what looks like) a small bomb strapped to the inside of the side-pod of this Tyrrell P34?

ly2v8-Brian > Goggles Pizzano 07/13/2014 at 01:21

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Same reason there are shells in Mario Kart. To give your competition a bad time.

Gimmi-Sagan-Om-Draken > Goggles Pizzano 07/13/2014 at 01:35

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Its a canister/cylinder, not a bomb!

Goggles Pizzano > Gimmi-Sagan-Om-Draken 07/13/2014 at 01:37

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Great to hear from you!

It's not in the drawing. Any idea what it would be for?

The man in the iron mask > Goggles Pizzano 07/13/2014 at 02:54

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nitrogen, for fast cars.

Gimmi-Sagan-Om-Draken > Goggles Pizzano 07/13/2014 at 11:46

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That was my first year after I left Saab, I wasn't with them but I think that was on the car at Monaco from pictures I see. I worked with mostly electrical systems, they must have needed something for certain circuits, its an add on, that bracket looks very garage built, I remember there is an access door to get to it when its covered up.

Goggles Pizzano > Gimmi-Sagan-Om-Draken 07/13/2014 at 11:52

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Thanks, Gimmi.

Did some more poking around last night and looked at everything from oil to fuel but nothing made any sense.

Edit: Actually...Could it be a charge to release and cool the cooler directly behind it? Hmmm.

tromoly > Goggles Pizzano 07/13/2014 at 13:20

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Fire bottle, most likely.

Gimmi-Sagan-Om-Draken > Goggles Pizzano 07/13/2014 at 14:31

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Cooling makes the most sense, they must have fallen short in certain places and found a way to increase it with this. I know the brakes had cooling issues since the fronts were travelling much more than the rears, but that has nothing to do with this I think. Oil cooling is in the nose... I do know that they had a lot of problems pop up and this has to be a fix for one of them. I actually worked with Cosworth but I was not over with them. They apparently changed a lot to keep the car competitive so I would think that many differences would not show up on an official schematic, we had to shoot from the hip a lot more than today. Its nice that Avon makes the tyres for these now and can take part in historics, they couldn't get on track until the 90s I think, no rubber.

Goggles Pizzano > Gimmi-Sagan-Om-Draken 07/13/2014 at 14:43

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I've made a point of getting diecasts of different versions. Really cool to try and understand the logic behind the band-aid changes year to year. Love it.