Sauber C30 / Heritage HF1-018. Warning: F1 Car Content :)

Sauber C30 / Heritage HF1-018. Warning: F1 Car Content :)

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poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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_dobbo_ said:
I love this thread. You mention this is a development car - does that mean you're able to source more F1 cars to build?
It does indeed, HF1-018 is the first of five modern era F1 cars that will be built to a similar spec and made available for competition use or simply as the fastest track day car in the world.

andburg

7,214 posts

168 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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what other chassis will be used?

I cant imagine sauber have enough old chassis they are able to sell to meet that demand alone.

crofty1984

15,830 posts

203 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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poppopbangbang said:
It does indeed, HF1-018 is the first of five modern era F1 cars that will be built to a similar spec and made available for competition use or simply as the fastest track day car in the world.
I could have sworn blind lotus were talking about doing that while I was there.

poppopbangbang

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140 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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andburg said:
what other chassis will be used?

I cant imagine sauber have enough old chassis they are able to sell to meet that demand alone.
Sauber, Marussia and Force India. We originally purchased nine chassis from Sauber but you don't want to be doing the same thing everytime do you wink

Craikeybaby

10,369 posts

224 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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poppopbangbang said:
Craikeybaby said:
Is that Multimathc in Coventry?
Thetford
Thanks. I walk past the Coventry one most days and wonder if they’re working on anything interesting.

poppopbangbang

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140 months

Wednesday 12th September 2018
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Following our time at Multimatic last week we're pushing on with track testing and want to do some investigation into what the floor is doing and the heave motion of the car.

Hence lasers:





Which accurately measure the ride height of the vehicle along the centre line whilst the cars in motion. This gives us a live measure of how much ride height loss we have in the car from aero load and coupled with push rod load cells a decent idea of the aero performance of the front and rear wings.

It also doesn't get much cooler than your racing car shining 25mm wide laser lines on the floor from its underbelly laugh



andburg

7,214 posts

168 months

Wednesday 12th September 2018
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Fricking laser beams!?!?

just when you though this couldnt get any cooler

Kitchski

6,514 posts

230 months

Wednesday 12th September 2018
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Hate threads like this. They always make you feel ste about your life and what you're doing with it laugh

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Sunday 16th September 2018
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So Donny went well!







Over two seconds found between the first session and the last. Lots more performance still to come by going to the lower drag/downforce front wing option and running some new boots..... oh and turning the boost up as we're still on "low" at the moment smile

We have a pretty busy development schedule over the coming weeks with new upgrades for IC and air intake coming through. The aim is to set some lap records before the weather turns biggrin


Speed_Demon

2,662 posts

187 months

Sunday 16th September 2018
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This is all achingly cool. Thank you for sharing.

chuntington101

5,733 posts

235 months

Monday 17th September 2018
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Can wait to see more developments on this.

Quick question re intercoolers, which brand of core are you using / will oh be using? What are the best of the best? You hear all about Garrett being good but are there any better ones? I hear the Audi guys use Marton (I think) cores.

poppopbangbang

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1,785 posts

140 months

Sunday 23rd September 2018
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chuntington101 said:
Can wait to see more developments on this.

Quick question re intercoolers, which brand of core are you using / will oh be using? What are the best of the best? You hear all about Garrett being good but are there any better ones? I hear the Audi guys use Marton (I think) cores.
We have a stash of older Secan cores and have previously used HS Marston (although they've just pulled the plug on their motorsport/automotive department to focus on aerospace). We're evaluating some options at the moment but the Garrett cores we've used on some other applications have been good, in fact very good for the money but they are heavy! As we generally have good airflow being side pod mounted we don't need the extra thermal mass wink

poppopbangbang

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140 months

Sunday 23rd September 2018
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Couple more good ones from the last Donny test:





Currently half way through a massive set of upgrades for the car which will take it forward to what will be our "production" spec for the HF1 program...... this includes an extra half a bar of boost biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin



Photo credits: Peter Hatter, Jon Wright.

Usget

5,426 posts

210 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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poppopbangbang said:
this includes an extra half a bar of boost
Yeah, thought it was a bit sluggish.

wobble

lufbramatt

5,318 posts

133 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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poppopbangbang said:
Couple more good ones from the last Donny test:



Currently half way through a massive set of upgrades for the car which will take it forward to what will be our "production" spec for the HF1 program...... this includes an extra half a bar of boost biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin



Photo credits: Peter Hatter, Jon Wright.
That's a stunning photo, would make a cool poster.

Loving this thread always great to see updates!

RumbleOfThunder

3,546 posts

202 months

Monday 24th September 2018
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More please. Always more!

F1GTRUeno

6,335 posts

217 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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RumbleOfThunder said:
More please. Always more!
This.

This is all of our inner kids being almost over indulged with lots of great content. Keep going PPBB, we thank you for it, you're doing great work.

Would absolutely love to see/hear this in person some day. Mega thing.

_dobbo_

14,327 posts

247 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Sorry if this has already been covered - is your exhaust in the same position as the original? I notice the car has a monkey seat and I wondered if it's working well with the new engine/exhaust setup. I guess without a wind tunnel it's hard to know.

SultanOfSwing

695 posts

146 months

Thursday 14th March 2019
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Any more updates on this? Fantastic thread...

DaveL485

2,758 posts

196 months

Tuesday 10th March 2020
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Shameless bump for updates smile