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There was talk of these crankshafts coming out of China.. not the FoMoCo Performance centre in the US… so a third or fourth party at best… Imagine building 10x of these engines and they lose even one in practice, without a serviceable spare… just WOW! |
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Having engine problems and also looking at an engine parity adjustment leading into Bathurst is a nightmare that no-one wants, that's for sure.
In that linked piece with Brad Jones earlier in the thread, whilst he's not saying it fully outright, it sounds like the Ford engine produced stronger outputs than the Chev on the transient dyno - and Brad is expecting a parity adjustment prior to Bathurst (along with the other Chev teams I suppose). I'd be surprised if any difference is other than minor but from Brad's tone and words, it appears that the difference is there. Even in this professional age, there is a lot of emotion in the pit lane heading into Bathurst (we used to call it "Bathurst fever") and across the board, as a general rule, the teams all get a bit more uptight and fractious from about 6 weeks out from Bathurst each year. Any parity adjustment is a bit of a hot potato in pit lane but in the lead up to Bathurst, it's a hot potato, loaded with firecrackers. However, if the transient dyno results show that such an adjustment is warranted, then so be it, as the dyno was the last part of the "measure everything" process and has been sought for some time, particularly by Ford. To then have crank problems only raises everyone's heart rates considerably & as BJR had a problem with the crank in one of its cars at Sandown, may not just be a "Ford" thing. Perhaps about now is when the idea of going to "production" engines starts to look not so cheap and not so smart overall? |
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I think a lot of people need to understand that power is a function of rpm x torque.
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I can see another boring, processional bathurst coming up again unfortunately.
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Nah - far too early to know in that regard. Could be a processional race, could be anything but, that is the beauty of The Mountain, it can throw up anything and often does. |
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