How cool is this [Gearhead stuff]

[trboost]

Check out this link to the warm up of a Formula 1 engine.

https://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/2006/02/unabashed_gearh.html

 

[kennypinkerton]

I was waitin for 'em to melt off - holy cow!

 

[tony barnhill]

& nobody had marshmellows?

 

[AngliaGT]

I think the guy standing next to it was deaf - or is now!

- Doug

 

[Steve_S]

WOW!!!!!! But the guy who wasn't plugging his ears has obviously been doing this for a while an has hearing loss. You don't "get used to" loud sounds - it's physically impossible. When a loud sound stops being loud, you've lost that much of your hearing!

 

[GregW]

The guy your referring to is the only one prepared with earplugs. You can see them hanging under his chin. I agree that he’s probably been doing this for a while because of them. I wish my car had a throttle response like THAT! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif

 

[Paul Johnson]

Thanks for the great clip - even at 6 in the morning it sounds good.

 

[tony barnhill]

Hmmm, anybody want to hang around the Garage-mahal when we fire up the GRM car? hehehehe

 

[DrEntropy]

<checks pocket for earplugs> Yup. But I can't find a babysitter for the kids... err... clients. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif

 

[swift6]

Anybody still wonder why they melt suspension pieces when their exhaust breaks. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

There is an IMAX movie called SpeedWay, about American open wheel racing with a side story on Mario Andretti. They have a scene at Cosworth testing an engine on a dyno. Similar scene of header glow. Very good movie, super high quality imagery/photography.

/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Another F1 tape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2MU1NooDg&search=f1

Mickey

 

[GregW]

I was waiting for the guys ears to start glowing red from the heat. What a letdown.