Got my hands on a new engine. 750ps!
AndyW - 1/9/10 at 07:46 PM
Unfortunatley I could not do anything with it once I got to touch it!! One is the engine that won Lewis the title and the other is the one that Jenson
used. Also not pictured was the first "KERS" engine and a complete shell of the vodafone car...... A hugely impressive set up and a very
nice bunch of guys at Mercedes High Performance Engines in Northampton.
The head of FM even said to me, "Give me a bit of extra discount and I will sort you out a full factory tour!" So I am going to give loads
of discount for VIP tickets to next years british grand prix....
Dangle_kt - 1/9/10 at 08:02 PM
wow, thats amazing!
before any of you bec haters start...
"I see it lasts longer than most BEC's"
ha
ha
ha.
GeoffT - 1/9/10 at 08:15 PM
Hmm.....750 whatsits in just 95 kilos - sounds like an ideal motor for a seven to me...
Liam - 1/9/10 at 08:25 PM
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh... so beautiful. Look how small that cute little clutch is. I love it.
nick205 - 1/9/10 at 08:30 PM
A thing of beauty 
skodaman - 1/9/10 at 08:31 PM
Will my english axle cope with that sort of power and do u think it will pass IVA on emissions?
blakep82 - 1/9/10 at 08:47 PM
whats 750ps?
Howlor - 1/9/10 at 08:50 PM
Did you manage to slip any goodies into your pockets?!
mcerd1 - 1/9/10 at 09:00 PM
quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
whats 750ps?
= 750 Pferdestärke
AndyW - 1/9/10 at 09:06 PM
Sorry to let you all down, but could not get my hands on too many goodies, although at only 90kgs that bad boy almost ended up in my pocket.
AndyW - 1/9/10 at 09:07 PM
Sorry to let you all down, but could not get my hands on too many goodies, although at only 90kgs that bad boy almost ended up in my pocket.
AndyW - 1/9/10 at 09:07 PM
Sorry to let you all down, but could not get my hands on too many goodies, although at only 90kgs that bad boy almost ended up in my pocket.
NigeEss - 1/9/10 at 10:09 PM
Mmm..shiny....
Mmmm....discount tickets......
matt_gsxr - 1/9/10 at 10:16 PM
looks a bit too tall to fit up-front. I guess you'd need to go with the perspex bonnet bulge to show it off a bit! emissions might be a bit
tricky too.
AndyW - 2/9/10 at 06:17 AM
emissions easy to sort, I think it might just work I they let me at least take one and try. I think I would stick an electric motor in the car and say
its electric powered, then once its passed, fire up the bad boy.......
David Jenkins - 2/9/10 at 07:56 AM
Might have a problem with the IVA noise test...
...even if they measure it at 100 metres, instead of 1!
Cheffy - 2/9/10 at 08:52 AM
quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
whats 750ps?
From Wikipedia:-
Metric horsepower
Metric horsepower began in Germany in the 19th century and became popular across Europe and Asia. The various units used to indicate this definition
(PS, CV, hk, pk, and ch) all translate to horse power in English, so it is common to see these values referred to as horsepower or hp in the press
releases or media coverage of the German, French, Italian, and Japanese automobile companies. British manufacturers often intermix metric horsepower
and mechanical horsepower depending on the origin of the engine in question. Sometimes the metric horsepower rating of an engine is conservative
enough so that the same figure can be used for both 80/1269/EEC with metric hp and SAE J1349 with imperial hp.
Metric horsepower, as a rule, is defined as 0.73549875 kW, or roughly 98.6% of mechanical horsepower. This was a minor issue in the days when
measurement systems varied widely and engines produced less power, but has become a major sticking point today. Exotic cars from Europe like the
McLaren F1 and Bugatti Veyron are often quoted using the wrong definition, and their power output is sometimes even converted twice because of
confusion over whether the original horsepower number was metric or mechanical.[citation needed]
[edit] PS
This unit (German: Pferdestärke = horse strength) is no longer a statutory unit, but is still commonly used in Europe, South America and Japan,
especially by the automotive and motorcycle industry. It was adopted throughout continental Europe with designations equivalent to the English
horsepower, but mathematically different from the British unit. It is defined by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)[8] in Braunschweig as
exactly:
1 PS = 75 kilopond-meters per second
(75 kp•m/s)×(9.80665 N/kp) = 735.49875 N•m/s ≈ 735.5 N•m/s ≈ 735.5 W ≈ 0.7355 kW ≈ 0.98632 hp (SAE)
The PS was adopted by the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) and then by the automotive industry throughout most of Europe, under varying names. In
1992, the PS was rendered obsolete by EEC directives, when it was replaced by the kilowatt as the official power measuring unit. It is still in use
for commercial and advertising purposes, in addition to the kW rating, as many customers are not familiar with the use of kilowatts for engines.
750PS = around 740HP according to the online converter I found.
HTH,
MArt.
[Edited on 2/9/10 by Cheffy]
mcerd1 - 2/9/10 at 09:41 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Cheffy
750PS = around 740HP according to the online converter I found.
or 750PS = 551.6KW