A Vist From Williams F1
#1
Posted 30 September 2016 - 09:54 PM
#2
Posted 01 October 2016 - 09:26 AM
It's crazy the evolution the cars have gone through over the years, I do think that's the technology has overtaken everything though. If an F1 team were allowed to build a car without hardly any constraints then I think the drivers would have to wear Jet fighter type suits to keep the drivers from blacking out.
I do wish the cars were a bit more like the old FW07 with manual gear change etc, that's the ground effect car with the side skirts if I'm correct. Lots of downforce generated from the underbody. That would be great to bring back to allow closer racing but I suppose if one of the skirts lifts under hard cornering, well that's your downforce gone! Just when you need it most!
#3
Posted 01 October 2016 - 03:25 PM
#4
Posted 02 October 2016 - 02:26 PM
Having worked on classic F1 cars, the evolution is incredible.
However, for full on engineering and technology you need to look at the Porsche, Audi and Toyota LMP1 cars!
#5
Posted 04 October 2016 - 09:23 PM
#6
Posted 04 October 2016 - 09:31 PM
#7
Posted 05 October 2016 - 08:05 PM
the car that took Alan Jones to the 1980 World Championship.
Here's one of the engines, well, parts of it, from that car.
Cam Carrier, having new sleeves fitted for the Buckets
Cylinder Block and Head, cast one piece, so no head gasket problems, cast in a grade of aluminium, with electroplated bores
and the all important Cam Cover
Amazing bit of kit.
#8
Posted 06 October 2016 - 09:09 PM
#9
Posted 09 October 2016 - 06:03 AM
As relayed to me, the car is or was here a few years ago in the hands of a private collector, the real car, not a replica or one of the other cars from the team (? if there were any others). It was undergoing some work, the full extent of I am unsure of, but various parts of the engine, as above, were sent to a college who is one clever guy. One of the jobs that he was asked to look and was to fit and dress valve seats. Easy on something that the head come apart from, but I can assure you a very tricky job on this. I gave my friend a hand over a week to do that part of the job, the other items were pretty straight forward.
My friend gets sent all many of 'difficult' jobs from all corners of the motorsport industry.
#10
Posted 09 October 2016 - 12:16 PM
FWIW that Hart Turbo engine might once have pushed Alan Jones towards the horizon, but it wasn't in the back of a Williams. His Williams had Cosworth DFVs though that Hart could have been fitted into a Beatrice Lola that Jones drove unsuccessfully in 1985.
Either way, it's a dramatic bit of kit.
By the way, when it comes to integral cylinder heads, there are some motor cars that are even more annoying to work on than a bloody Mini! If you want to grind the valves in a Bugatti, you start by taking the back wheels off ... to remove the back axle, the propshaft, the gearbox and then when you've dropped the engine, you can take out the crank and rods and pistons and look up the bores to see the valves!
Just as well they didn't make five million of them!
Jon
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