Bmw f1 turbo engine from the 80'

1499 cc 4 cylinders

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[miatasteve1]

Its RIMMER!!! From Red Dwarf!!!

[gabbermaikel]

@JSPRFRDKS where you there when bmw where building the f1 engines?

they did use engineblocks that where used in a road car, they just bought back the car and used the engine

and if you listen to what he says then you would know that they talked with people who worked on those engine's

[ZekeMoffat1]

It's true back when I worked for BMW I pissed on them for years, I'd like to think I helped Nelson to his championship.

[TheColinChapman]

the story has many mistakes. Piquet didn't qualify in Detroit 1982 due to the turbo lag, but due to an electrical failures in friday's qualifying session with both his race car and his spare car, and after both cars had been fixed for saturday's qualifying session, rain came up.

[thenicedudejay]

that engine designer at BMW was given the order that this M10 block should have the ability to be enlarged & tuned to a race engine in future. what a good foresight of those bosses in charge at the BMW factory in the early 60's :)

[magna59]

All a little like a marketing line,like the 4" stripe on the minor bonnet.....but faster. How much meat to you cast out of an F1 block over a road block, which does not have to have customer faith in it or carry a guarantee.

[dreadnok320]

What a crazy story. To use old blocks with 100k on them and then leave them out side to be weathered then piss on them. Then Turbo charge them for F1 use. Great story. It proves that money is not everything. The thought that went in to this set up was unreal. 1350hp with a stock block with 100k that has sat out side in the weather for god knows how long. Makes you want to buy a BMW.

[emceeslo]

@JSPRFRDKS I agree with that. We can read as much as we want. But in the end, if none of us were there, how would we know? Peace!

[JSPRFRDKS]

@emceeslo I never said the blocks where modified in any particular way. Just that they machined more than a bit of of them. They also used special cylinder sleeves and liners to change the diplasement to the regulation 1500cc. I just think the old blocks story is just a little marketing they brought to life. F1 is surounded by myths and nothing better then throwing sand in everyones eyes right? But that's just my opinion. Everybody is entitled to have one, I guess we will never know what's what

[emceeslo]

@JSPRFRDKS Not so, check out my comment above.

[emceeslo]

@JSPRFRDKS (cont from above) "However, aside from machining away around 5kg of superfluous metal such as stiffening ribbs and water channels on the inlet side, the blocks remained fundamentally UNMODIFIED (emphasis added by me) from the basic production examples"

[emceeslo]

@JSPRFRDKS This passage is from a book by Alan Henrey " Formula One: The Turbo Era" printed 1998 ", according to Paul Rosche. Quote, "It did not take long for the BMW Motorsport engineers to discover that the standard production blocks performed at therir optimum when aged. Two- or three-year -old blocks from cars which had covered as much as 100,000 kilometers on the road had less inherent strees in their structure than newer examples." (cont)