Engine Change

Car on stands about to have an engine change. Notice: the layout of the coolers, the exhaust routing and the complicated engine cover


Car on stands having engine change, notice the side impact protection spars jutting out from monocoque. Steering wheel in foam caddy in front of cockpit.


Gearbox already removed and engine being removed.


Engine

Engine removed from car: Notice large oil tank and de-airator mounted to front, and water hoses.


Engine removed from car: wide V angle, low line airbox design and oil hoses


Gearbox

Gearbox removed from car. Notice the low line over the top of the unit, the dampers are mounted inside the casting


Rear impact structure and rear wing mount, apologies for poor quality of image.




Floor

Car on Jacks having the floor removed.


Car on Jacks having the floor removed.


Floor being removed. Notice: its being lifted by two men as its very heavy, as the Ballast is mounted to the (still attached) plank. Lower edges of sidepod permanently attached, missing section in centre diffuser channel that is instead mounted to the gearbox.



Front End

New spoon type front wing being carried through the pits. Notice: the wing dips in the centre and has a longer profile on the ends and in the centre, the underwing fences are visible and the underside of the wing has been painted black unlike the conventional wing also used.


Conventional front wing being covered up. Notice: the fences are the same as the spoon wing.


Rear view of Nose cone and Wing. Notice: the four mounting pins, only two of them actually lock against the monocoque, the rear face of the nose cone has a piece of carbon sheet bonded to it to make a better joint against the monocoque, the lower extension is to cover the rib under the nose that mounts the lower wishbones.


Front Bulkhead. Notice the neat layout, torsion bars mounted on top outer corners, large fluid resevoirs, Corravit sensor mounted in rib undernose.


Detail on front suspension and front wing endplate. Notice: the mid placed steering arm, wishbnes using flexure mountings, sensor on top of pushrod, gurneys on end of front wing and thick endlate on wing.Car on Jacks having the floor removed.


Mika Salo exiting the pits. Notice: the new short format exhausts need cut out in sidepod, shaped barge boards, Rear wheel with very little offset and neat rear end.Car on Jacks having the floor removed.