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honda changing f1 engine
bart - 1/4/15 at 09:18 AM

Honda announced this morning that they are changing there F! engine

Honda chief engineer Mr Toshi

announced this morning that they are scrapping there current F1 engine and replacing it with a modified short stroke
Honda civic K20 engine, they have fitted various upgrades and are finding that its more reliable and produces more power than there current F1 engine. , Honda announced that they should have first running test completed before 12 o'clock today.
it is then reported that they will seek permission to use it from a MR B Ecclescake .

motorcycle_mayhem - 1/4/15 at 09:29 AM

I wish this was the case! The Mercedes Wolferine will intervene, citing the current rules which he is ruthlessly coveting. No engine changes/replacements will be made/allowed until 2016 when Mercedes will have to accept that they have some competition. I'm sure they'll protest enough though....

Joking about K20's apart - remember that there was a proposal to go to 4 cylinder units.... Duratec racing.

wylliezx9r - 1/4/15 at 10:53 AM

April fools

bart - 1/4/15 at 10:57 AM

No no really

chillis - 1/4/15 at 11:05 AM

Good one - had me for a minute LOL

locogeoff - 1/4/15 at 10:02 PM

All joking aside,

Was there not a BMW block that was turbo charged and installed in an F1 car, and the same block used in their road cars (possibly also turbo, probably with a smaller blower)?

Regards
Locogeoff

Dingz - 1/4/15 at 11:03 PM

quote:

Was there not a BMW block

Yes they used a standard block for the 1.5 turbo but they used the oldest blocks they could find for the most stable material so they went around all the scrapyards in germany to find them!

theduck - 1/4/15 at 11:27 PM

Yes the BMW m10 was the road car engine and the m12 was the Motorsport version.

bart - 1/4/15 at 11:37 PM

Now there's an idea for F1 out of an April fools joke
Engines must be based on production blocks and heads although they could be modified within rules.
Now that would drive road car development

Dingz - 3/4/15 at 08:29 PM

You could base them on a fire pump engine?

bart - 3/4/15 at 08:53 PM

Ah la hilman Coventry climax engine
Many many many years ago the guy I served my engineering app under did a lot of the development work on it.
He also did a lot on the old single overhead slant four vaxhall engine ie the one that was fitted in the viva and chuvet ect

chillis - 3/4/15 at 10:23 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bart
Ah la hilman Coventry climax engine
Many many many years ago the guy I served my engineering app under did a lot of the development work on it.
He also did a lot on the old single overhead slant four vaxhall engine ie the one that was fitted in the viva and chuvet ect [/quote

Coventry Climax did loads of F1 engines back in th '50's and '60's so entirely feasible