So I have a spanner, and i'm throwing it in to the works here...
So, if we are planning this open engine project to be an i4, hows about this as something to ponder... Is there any way we could get insight into what the F1 guys will be doing for 2013? I know that they will be heavily guarded secrets, but maybe some basic ideas will be revealed, ideas that could possibly be borrowed.
Now I have no idea what those guys will come up with - how much more can you do to a basic i4 turbo? - but one thing is for sure, they are going to be throwing millions at wringing out ~750 horses from those little 1.6 FI engines so there is bound to be some cool new stuff that might be usable. (That or they just throw oodles of boost at the problem
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I know you would ideally want to base this thing on an already well established design, but what if we could base it on the next iteration of bleeding edge i4 tech?
I know there was no real content in what I said, it's just something else for us to think about...
So I was just browsing around the web, as you do, and saw that they have finalised this. However, the teams did not want i4 engines (Can't be used as a structural member, would need spaceframes etc) so the new regs for 2014 will be 1.6L V6 turbocharged.
Tom...