First start up ,Arrows A9 BMW Megatron F1 Turbo, Geoff Page

[busa turbo]

jellison said:

busa turbo said:

few more pic's sorry if some are repost's!

Renault? Maybe Ford, pretty sure not a Tag or Honda.

spot on with Renault here is a pic with it in and a couple of the BMW

[jellison]

Cool - all that time reading books on the turbo cars paid off!

Not sure I'd want my feet in that Renault tub!

[jontysafe]

Isn`t it also true that the BMW blocks were weathered outside and the engineers used to urinate on them because they had a strange notion that it would strngthen them? I`m sure I`ve read that somewhere!

[bobthemonkey]

Richard-G said:

No myth, the engine was based around the m10/12 series, blocks used from production and bench tested engines. Theory being if they hadn't let go up until now they'd be good to go!

What isn't a myth is the fuel brabham/bmw got hold of to run them at über boost, supposedly very caustic and dating back to a type used in ww2 by bmw. Interesting story which I hope someone can clarify

It allegedly included a highly volatile benzene derivative, namely toluene, as in trinitrotoluene [TNT].