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Topic: Potential Engine Swap?

What's the record for the most penalty laps ever?

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Re: Potential Engine Swap?

they'll give you 0 laps because the engine's only made to last about an hour. then if you ever manage to get enough rubber and brakes underneath your car, you will guaranteed to get claimed by jay.

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Re: Potential Engine Swap?

This is a new F1 engine, only 200 miles

Well, which is it?  Is an F1 engine really expected to last more than 200 miles?  'Cause to me, that sounds like it's a used engine, in need of rebuild.

Just looked up length of race - apparently it's defined as the number of laps on the course that is closest to 305 kilometers.  That's 189 miles, so at 200 miles this is an engine that has run a full F1 race.  It's used up.

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Nah, I say give it a whirl. I'm sure you could find spare parts at the O'Reilly in Angleton when it breaks down midway through Saturday. smile

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Re: Potential Engine Swap?

What kind of gearing do you need to stay between 13,000 and 17,000 rpm?

I'm guessing this is one of the engines that wasn't built before you had to finish the season with X # of engines.  9I don't recall what X was, 4?)

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Mulry wrote:

Nah, I say give it a whirl. I'm sure you could find spare parts at the O'Reilly in Angleton when it breaks down midway through Saturday. smile

You're being awfully optimistic that a used F1 motor would last that long! I'm thinking that engine will get fried on the first lap because someone will run it with used quaker state, it'll break every drivetrain piece inside of whatever car it's placed into as soon as we go green, and the team will wind up wrenching on it all weekend, or, if the plant doesn't break and your drivetrain is miraculously up to the task, the car will get stuffed so deep into turn1's run-off that you're going to need a proctologist with an auger to retrieve it.

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This is a Judd GV, used in 1991 & 1992.  So it's pretty old.

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Serj wrote:
Mulry wrote:

Nah, I say give it a whirl. I'm sure you could find spare parts at the O'Reilly in Angleton when it breaks down midway through Saturday. smile

You're being awfully optimistic that a used F1 motor would last that long! I'm thinking that engine will get fried on the first lap because someone will run it with used quaker state, it'll break every drivetrain piece inside of whatever car it's placed into as soon as we go green, and the team will wind up wrenching on it all weekend, or, if the plant doesn't break and your drivetrain is miraculously up to the task, the car will get stuffed so deep into turn1's run-off that you're going to need a proctologist with an auger to retrieve it.

And then it will flip and burn. But it would be a hell of a ride for that 15 seconds.

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Re: Potential Engine Swap?

Serj wrote:

...you're going to need a proctologist with an auger to retrieve it.

Serj, you have such a way with words. smile

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Hell, yeah! What could possibly go wrong?

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Re: Potential Engine Swap?

I want to hear that thing run... For at least a lap!

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Re: Potential Engine Swap?

I want to hear that thing run... For at least a lap!

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big_smile

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Re: Potential Engine Swap?

Dunno, I think with the old F1 rules everything was disposable at point of track entry - designed for one race, practice and qualifying -up to two hours
~the newer F1 rules limit number of engines per season to where you pretty much need to run the same one four races... I'm not certain what can be replaced between races or what "the same one" means, but the implication was to keep costs down.

ya' did know they get more HP and more RPM'sby narrowing the rod and main bearings, right? (I'd love to find the link to that, it's a Honda detail from '92 or '94)