Can Am Supersports - Big Banger V8 - McLaren M8F - Good Sound & Backfire

The Big Bangers at Hockenheim for the Jim Clark Revival 2006 - serious V8 Engine Sound and 2.0l Backfire.

March Chevron Osella Lola

At the Orwell Supersports Cup starting Cars and Drivers as
McLaren M8C
Piper, Richard
McLaren M8F
Wünsch, Gerd
Lola T222
BRM P154
Grant, John
McLaren M8C/D
March 707
Elfin ME 5
Bradley, Frank
Bell, Don
Lola T163
McLaren M8F
McLaren M6B
Lola T70 Mk III
Martin BM 9/10
Chevron B21/23
Chevron B19
Lola T212
Chevron B21
Sauber C5
TOJ SC204
Osella PA4
Kalb, Silvio
March 76S
Lola T296
March 75S
Lola T294
Lola T292

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[RyckardPT]

High reving engines is the thing. Big blocks are only good for who are seeing because of the monster noise they make but when driving this kind of engines are too heavy.. but still fun ofcorse. I prefeer a thousand times high reving engines, thats my opinion.

sorry for the english

[MPZRACEVIDEO]

I love both kind of engines - together in one race they are great...

[TheArfdog]

The Audi R8 engine won't be as efficient as the LS7, in any type of car. I just gave you an example, in two sports cars (R8 and Corvette, which weigh similar), the LS7 gets better mileage in city, highway, and combined than the R8's V10 and V8. You lose.

[YourUncleScroatie]

Now,let me watch this again,in peace..."I love you,you love me..."

[YourUncleScroatie]

The original comparison was about torque versus horsepower.Physics.

But,I agree,if you put a ZZ572 in a F1 car,it would be slower than a Chevy Silverado Texas Edition pickup. The MONSTER torque would snap the F1 chassis in half,well,that's if it got traction,and the halfshafts or transmission or diff didn't fail.

They're not designed to handle the shock of a shitload of American Torque!

[66606cl66]

they are designed to pull a 648kg f1 car. not a pickup. these kind of comparisons are rediculous, just the same as if you put a big block canam engine in the back of an f1, the added weight would make it much slower than a 2.4l formula 1 car

[66606cl66]

the 917/30 only made 1500bhp in qualifying, which it would only do 1 lap. it ran with around 1000bhp in the race, although i hardly believe the period tyres and primative aerodynamics would allow it to put the extra 200bhp it had over the m8f to any definative advantage. you also have to remember that mclaren won 5 seasons and porsche only 2, both with penske racing. unrelated, i love the sound of the brm v16, the 1.5 litre supercharged

[66606cl66]

probably wouldn't last till the end :P

[YourUncleScroatie]

No replacement for displacement! I've seen that purple McClaren (the one with the NASCAR carburetor) run away from a factory prepped McClaren F-1 GTR.

The 2013 Renault RS27 F-1 engine produces at 18,000 RPM,750HP or 219ft.lb. of torque (vovlo territory).

If you hooked a 5000lb(2200kg close enough) Chevy pickup to the back of an F-1 car,the F-1 car would have severe difficulty in even getting the pickup to start moving.

If you took an F-1 car apart and put it in the back of a Chevy 2500 pickup...

[William Sherwood]

if only a chaparral 2j was there

[surpasslimits]

Turbos are the replacement for displacement

[Punjabi192]

There is one Can Am car that didnt have enormous displacement(The Mclaren M20 was about 9L at the end of its life), the porsche 917/30. . . it had a 5.3L twin turbocharged flat 12, and it made 1500hp! It won every Can Am race except one in the 1972 season(72 or 73). So displacement isnt everything, engineering does help! Although I do love the sound of a 351 Cleveland. . .

[gullreefclub]

Their is no replacement for cubic displacement. In the early 1970's when that Can-Am cars cam to run at Watkins Glenn the shattered the track records that had previously been held by F1 cars. I think a lot of the F1 tracks in 1960's and 1970's would have great tracks to have had Can-Am races but that my opinion.  I can speak from experience their is nothing like the brute torque of a Big Block engine.