RE: GMA T.50 laps Le Mans (on a dyno) | Time for Tea?

[JoeMk1]

Is it just me that can never see the whole video in PH posts?



Viewing on a PC via Chrome, same story if I use Edge

[ecsrobin]

Nobody else wonder why Le Sarthe as a test track? Assume that’s them dropping that they’re going for the Le Mans hypercar catergory?

[Jules Henry]

the Carguy said:

Anybody else bored with the Hype ?

What??? when was the last time a legit car company built a drivers manual V12 instead of a handbag. I find it bold & exciting. Porsche seem to be the only other ones listening by atleast offering the GT3 in manual. Now if Ferrari could build an F40 2.0 instead of trinkets how good would that be? For me the power race just seems like a race to the bottom

[budgie smuggler]

JoeMk1 said:

Is it just me that can never see the whole video in PH posts?



Viewing on a PC via Chrome, same story if I use Edge

Same here, firefox.

[ecsrobin]

budgie smuggler said:

JoeMk1 said:

Is it just me that can never see the whole video in PH posts?



Viewing on a PC via Chrome, same story if I use Edge

Same here, firefox.

I have the same issue on iOS but when you click the video it goes full screen.

[dinkel]

It sounds great.

For me this is what it's really about. Imperfection makes for unbelievable noises.

Tipo 33/12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWe_bcu36YE

312P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFzgsq49R8

The richness of these 2 valve 3 liters is awesome.

[anonymous-user]

the Carguy said:

Anybody else bored with the Hype ?

No, because it feels a bit like twilight of the idols. 40 years ago, I'd have agreed with you. But this, in a very real sense, is the end of a line. I'm delighted it exists at all ...

[PhantomPH]

ecsrobin said:

budgie smuggler said:

JoeMk1 said:

Is it just me that can never see the whole video in PH posts?



Viewing on a PC via Chrome, same story if I use Edge

Same here, firefox.

I have the same issue on iOS but when you click the video it goes full screen.

It's because PH have the viewport for the video set to 1008px wide, but the CSS applied to the div it's in is set to 615px. Hence the cropping.

[boxerTen]

The exhaust manifolds on each bank collect cylinders 1, 3 and 5, into one group of three, and cylinders 2, 4, and 6 into a second group of 3. Normally a V12 collects the front 3 cylinders of each bank into a group and the rear 3 cylinders into a second group. One wonders if the firing order is different than usual, or the cranks are at different angles, or whether one just gets better breathing from different grouping. Be interested to know the reason ...

[varsas]

boxerTen said:

The exhaust manifolds on each bank collect cylinders 1, 3 and 5, into one group of three, and cylinders 2, 4, and 6 into a second group of 3. Normally a V12 collects the front 3 cylinders of each bank into a group and the rear 3 cylinders into a second group. One wonders if the firing order is different than usual, or the cranks are at different angles, or whether one just gets better breathing from different grouping. Be interested to know the reason ...

So you want the pulses in your exhaust to be 'even', that is to follow a nice even rhythm, with no gaps. Doing the exhaust as you described does that, anything else does not.

You could alter the firing order in a V12 but the overall pattern is so easy, clear, obvious and has so many benefits you'd never change that, hence the best exhaust design will always be the same. I am sure those other V12's had different exhaust designs due to cost/packaging reasons?

You are right though, the McLaren F1 engine and some V12 F1 engines I have seen are 1,2,3 / 4,5,6 -> 1 . Am I wrong?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2...

[Mafffew]

the Carguy said:

Anybody else bored with the Hype ?

Sort of, I think it's cool the car exists and it sounds great. But I find it difficult to get excited over something that I will likely never see, drive or own.

[BVB]

Sounds pretty cool, but not the awesome shriek of a Ferrari or Lambo V12.

[Sandpit Steve]

cookie1600 said:

This or the Aston Valkyrie n/a V12 revving to 11,000 rpm? It seems like Cosworth are developing the last of the great screaming V12s, I wonder what their future is in an all electric car world.

Being one of the few left standing, still building proper engines?

[daytona111r]

Sounds like an air raid siren.

Really excited by this, but whatever that fan does is not worth it for the looks.

[Slippydiff]

If GM can make the induction noise sound even close to this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHgD0wJGcR0

and I reckon he will

I'll enjoy every second behind the wheel of mine ...

Hopefully it'll sound every bit as good as the Zonda F from outside too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEpxGhCoMDI

[PhantomPH]

Slippydiff said:

If GM can make the induction noise sound even close to this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHgD0wJGcR0

and I reckon he will

I'll enjoy every second behind the wheel of mine ...

Hopefully it'll sound every bit as good as the Zonda F from outside too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEpxGhCoMDI

HP is no drag racer, is he?

[PhantomPH]

daytona111r said:

Sounds like an air raid siren.

Really excited by this, but whatever that fan does is not worth it for the looks.

Fan looks fricken awesome - and I say that as a middle aged man with a teenage boy mindset when it comes to hypercars.

[Niffty951]

dinkel said:

312P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFzgsq49R8

awesome

Sweet Jesus

[Smitters]

I'll hand my PH card in on the way out. I think that sounds dreadful.

[Fink-Nottle]

You're not the only one. It sounds like a dentist's drill. From Hell.

This is not an April's Fools, surely.

Right?