Gadget Geeks: Build an F1 car tomorrow at 8pm

[Butter Face]

On Sky one.

Taking a standard 1.4 Honda Civic (EJ9 chassis dontchaknow) and turning it into an F1 'style' car.







Gonna be 'interesting'

[DanDC5]

Looking at the preview of the finished car, my 1st thought was shambles

[Butter Face]

DanDC5 said:

Looking at the preview of the finished car, my 1st thought was shambles

Big inter cooler on the front though!

[anonymous-user]

So, turning a front engined fwd, steel fullbodied production car into a carbon fibre, single seat, rear engine rwd, full aero F1 car?? hmmmmm, really ?

[Butter Face]

Yes that. With sheet metal, and a turbo

[Otispunkmeyer]

looks absolutely terrible to be honest.

[james_tigerwoods]

Any photo links - for those of us peasants that don't have Sky?

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Butter Face said:

Yes that. With sheet metal, and a turbo

F1 car's don't have turbos










Yes, I know they have done in the past, and will start doing agin. But I mean right now, at the moment, current F1 cars

[Daz68]

That Civic was £500. You have been robbed.

[Daz68]

Yellow Fiat!!! Oh dear time to turnover.

[BelperJim]

FWD and what appears to be 80/20 weight distribution Front/Rear. Interesting.

[Baked_bean]

I am currebtly watching this. despite the glaring factua errors it is fairly entertaining.

[deadmau5]

Some vaguely interesting bits, mostly painful though. 'F1-inspired changes'

[SystemParanoia]

thought it looked more like an autotest car than a racer lol. then after the bodywork just looked wrong lol ( would it be classed as an open wheeler on a track day? ).
would have helpped if they had the injectors cleaned befoe wacking them upto 100% duty cycle!

Edited by SystemParanoia on Monday 12th March 22:36

[Butter Face]

eBay spec turbo kit!

It's made me want to hack a civic to pieces for a laugh though if nothing else!!

[The Tea Boy]

Although it was pretty st, it was far more interesting than the latest series of topgear!

[DanDC5]

Biggest load of arse I've ever seen, this is like the tat they used to show on Men n Motors, in the day time obviously. The amount o made of facts was ridiculous! And apparently if you turn up to Rockingham on the right day you'll see F1 teams testing there! Since when? I don't think an F1 car has ever even gone round there ffs!

[PaulG40]

They've basically just got on the F1 bandwagon and thought they'd do something completely unrelated. Usual tv presenter challenge balls up. Had all the hallmarks of a great programme had they'd binned the F1 references and just done a time attack style one especially as they've 'racing' a 370z.

Why couldnt they have bought a cheap mr2 or something like James May had done for top gear.

[DanDC5]

PaulG40 said:

They've basically just got on the F1 bandwagon and thought they'd do something completely unrelated. Usual tv presenter challenge balls up. Had all the hallmarks of a great programme had they'd binned the F1 references and just done a time attack style one especially as they've 'racing' a 370z.

Why couldnt they have bought a cheap mr2 or something like James May had done for top gear.

That would suggest they had even a clue about what they were actually doing.

[Arun_D]

DanDC5 said:

And apparently if you turn up to Rockingham on the right day you'll see F1 teams testing there! Since when? I don't think an F1 car has ever even gone round there ffs!

All I can recall is some Mercedes F1 team promo videos from there last year and that 5th Gear thing when they 'raced' a BMW F1 car against a V10 M5.

Thought the program was pretty flawed but entertaining nonetheless.