Facts and figures:
* Output of the BMW P83 is over 900 bhp.
* Maximum engine speed is 19,200 rpm.
* In a race, engine speed is limited to 19,000 rpm.
* Idle speed is 4,000 rpm.
* The engine weighs less than 90 kilograms.
* It completes a distance of 500 kilometres before undergoing revision.
Total production of the BMW P83 is 200 units, ten of which the team takes
to each race.
* Before being phased out the engine will have received 1,388 upgrade
modifications.
* It comprises around 5,000 individual components, 1,000 of them different.
The air intake volume is 1,995 cubic metres per hour.
* Maximum piston acceleration is 10,000g.
* Piston speed peaks at 40 metres per second and averages 25 metres per
second.
* Exhaust temperatures of up to 950 degrees are reached.
* Maximum air temperature in the pneumatic system is 250 degrees.
* The ultra-high-speed 130R turn at Suzuka with its lateral load of 4g poses
the greatest challenge to the oil system.
* The BMW P83 endured the highest full-throttle proportion on the Monza
circuit at 73 per cent per lap.
* At the Monaco Grand Prix, the transmission and engine have to withstand
an average 3,100 gear changes.
* The engine block and cylinder head are made of cast aluminium and are
manufactured at the BMW Formula One foundry in Landshut using a
special thin-wall casting method.
* BMW Munich handles, among other things the manufacture of the
crankshaft (steel), camshaft (case-hardened steel) and camshaft covers, as
well as processing of the cylinder head and crankcase. The oil system and
engine electronics also stem from BMW Munich.
http://www.f1network.net/main/s107/st33345.htm
En zo klinkt het dan......................
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT36kC2p ... r_embedded#![/youtube]
