Any gearheads here?

66KingFisher · 06-02-10, 01:28 PM

I just had to share this with you guys.....I get goosebumps everytime I watch.....lol.....Maybe that shows how strange I am?

In the shop F1 engine warm up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56zbHewJHJE

nofearengineer · 06-02-10, 02:06 PM

Make a nice station wagon motor.

walkeraviator · 06-02-10, 03:03 PM

mmmm... nothing like 15000 rpms to get the heart pumpin... i dare you to touch the exhaust...

nofearengineer · 06-02-10, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by walkeraviator

mmmm... nothing like 15000 rpms to get the heart pumpin... i dare you to touch the exhaust...

Didn't you hear the comments? The exhaust was melting....

Kind of like the WTC steel melted.

66KingFisher · 06-02-10, 03:18 PM

Yup....You know them $8000 titianium exhaust pipes were melting huh.

Bender · 06-02-10, 06:43 PM

Those engines are just amazing works of art. The headers (at least the ones I know directly) are Inconel. The old place I worked sold a tube bender to Toyota's F1 team when they were getting started. Unfortunately it was right when I started work there in 2001 and I didn't get to go to Germany for the installation. That's O.K. though since I have experience bending Inconel in aircraft companies and it is a B$#% to work with. I even had a piece of that tubing kicking around for a while, I think it was 0.021" wall 3" or 3.5" O.D.

I stopped following F1 a few years ago but when I did it was just sickening the amount of money and technology involved. I believe Toyota's F1 budget was around $450,000,000.00 and Ferrari's was higher! And that is just for 2 cars on the track at a time!!!

CMorg · 06-02-10, 09:23 PM

Thats awsome... I like this vid as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afh9g...eature=channel

66KingFisher · 06-02-10, 11:49 PM

CMorg, If you liked that video(which I did too)then you might like this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0PgyPWE3o&feature=fvst

Bender, I'm pretty sure your right about those headers being made from Inconel....I couldn't remember what that stuff was called....lol. Like you, i'm amazed at how technologically advanced those engines are......To twist it to almost 19,000 revs per minute and not blow up during a race, is mind blowing....they make awesome horsepower yet get amazing fuel mileage.....But the whole F1 series has gotten so far outta control in terms of cost its unreal....Actually stupid if you want my real opinion.

They may still be the elite racing series in the world, but they don't have near the fan base they used to have, and personally, I think the older F1 cars were alot more fun to watch.

06-02-10, 01:28 PM	#1
66KingFisher BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Mena,Arkansas Posts: 1,327	Any gearheads here? I just had to share this with you guys.....I get goosebumps everytime I watch.....lol.....Maybe that shows how strange I am? In the shop F1 engine warm up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56zbHewJHJE

06-02-10, 02:06 PM	#2
nofearengineer BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Southwest IN Posts: 5,630	Make a nice station wagon motor. __________________ Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

06-02-10, 03:03 PM	#3
walkeraviator BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 1,119	mmmm... nothing like 15000 rpms to get the heart pumpin... i dare you to touch the exhaust...

06-02-10, 03:18 PM	#5
66KingFisher BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Mena,Arkansas Posts: 1,327	Yup....You know them $8000 titianium exhaust pipes were melting huh.

06-02-10, 06:43 PM	#6
Bender BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Brighton, MI Posts: 2,414	Those engines are just amazing works of art. The headers (at least the ones I know directly) are Inconel. The old place I worked sold a tube bender to Toyota's F1 team when they were getting started. Unfortunately it was right when I started work there in 2001 and I didn't get to go to Germany for the installation. That's O.K. though since I have experience bending Inconel in aircraft companies and it is a B$#% to work with. I even had a piece of that tubing kicking around for a while, I think it was 0.021" wall 3" or 3.5" O.D. I stopped following F1 a few years ago but when I did it was just sickening the amount of money and technology involved. I believe Toyota's F1 budget was around $450,000,000.00 and Ferrari's was higher! And that is just for 2 cars on the track at a time!!!

06-02-10, 09:23 PM	#7
CMorg BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern , IN Posts: 1,832	Thats awsome... I like this vid as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afh9g...eature=channel

06-02-10, 11:49 PM	#8
66KingFisher BassFishin.Com Super Veteran Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Mena,Arkansas Posts: 1,327	CMorg, If you liked that video(which I did too)then you might like this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0PgyPWE3o&feature=fvst Bender, I'm pretty sure your right about those headers being made from Inconel....I couldn't remember what that stuff was called....lol. Like you, i'm amazed at how technologically advanced those engines are......To twist it to almost 19,000 revs per minute and not blow up during a race, is mind blowing....they make awesome horsepower yet get amazing fuel mileage.....But the whole F1 series has gotten so far outta control in terms of cost its unreal....Actually stupid if you want my real opinion. They may still be the elite racing series in the world, but they don't have near the fan base they used to have, and personally, I think the older F1 cars were alot more fun to watch.

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