Renault R25 demo runs show what modern F1 cars are missing - Alonso

I was at a number of V10 era races through 2005 and yes, I did shed a tear hearing the R25......

 

This company is still building F1 V10 engines that you can buy today

 

Thanks bill.....I know what I want for my b'day.....

 

How much ??

 

F1 is missing V10s!

Think about the best sounding engines. Lexus LFA, Carrera GT

JUDD, their engines were in some nice hillclimb unibodies.

 

I think around $50-70k USD based on this old ad. https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/105010/two-judd-gv55-v10-engines-complete

 

Kind of hard to justify in a $30K build..............oh well.............

 

Well....then.....go a "little" higher and buy an "old" 333SP and drop one in......

 

I want to do a $30k build with a VR38 from an R35 GTR and even those are ridiculously expensive especially when you add in the aftermarket ECU.

 

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What shell are yu trying to put the V10 in?

 

I am looking to put a 2.4-2.6 L V8 in a FIAT X1/9 and have it look "stock"

 

Is that not what Doran did at the time? That was considered sacrilege.

 

Could Biofuels Bring V10 Engines Back to F1? - YouTube

The full video pissed me off on 2 points:

First of all they highlight that e-fuel's don't please environmentalists and therefore it would be insensitive. Well, duh. Environmentalists are never happy. If the entire world today drove in electric cars and fueled only by magical clean windpower and fairy farts, they'd still have an issue with it all. It will never, ever be enough for them. There's a reason you can't spell environmentalists without "mentalists". Apparently ecomentalists are upset that the e fuel they make using electricity from their windfarm and solar panels isn't efficient enough...They need stop ****ing pandering to these lunatics!

2nd was their statement that the car manufacturers in F1 are there ''to bring some of that technology to their road cars". ********. Real F1 engine tech won't make it to proper road cars for 2 simple reasons: Costs and complexity. There simply is no reason to have the fanciest tech in generic road cars because there are simpler ways to get the same result. Mercedes' ******** claims of having a real MGUH in their road cars for example as laughable. It was literally just a turbocharger with an 48v electric motor attached to it. No matter how many F1 links they try to give to it (they kind of have to in order to justify their F1 expenditures), it's simple not true.

 

those mentalists may be interested in FE.
It is far from being green !

The temporary street cicuits require hundreds of diesel trucks, concrete barriers, temporary grandstands / catering facilities etc etc. Weeks to rig and de-rig.

FE is BROWN !

 

You may be right, but that doesn't stop governments encouraging EVs, and the present fuel price increase tends to make them right too.

I am just wondering how will will recharge all these EVs once the majority of motorists will have turned to electricity.

I think ecologists want to kill individual transport to the benefit of public transport they never stop to advocate.

 

It reveals how dumb many governments currently are.
Government should lead, not follow.

 

Governments are not neutral: they are made of people who want to push an opinion.

 

sure, but who's opinion are they pushing ?

 

In Europe the ecologist lobby has infiltrated all the political parties to push their agenda.

The left tells you climate change is a mortal threat.

The right believes it's a good opportunity to make money.