Facts and Figures - Williams BMW FW27

[TurboX]

The FW27 will accelerate from standing to 200kmh in five seconds, and deceleration forces on board will reach 5g. 1g equates to driving into a brick wall at 30kmh. Brake temperatures to generate the deceleration will reach 6000C in one second

On board the FW27, exhaust temperatures reach 9500C and even the air temperature in the pneumatic valve system reaches temperatures two and half times boiling point at 2500C

The BMW P84/5 contains 5,000 individual components, and takes 100 man hours to build. BMW have historically produced approximately 200 engines per season, but this figure will reduce in 2005

BMW produce 1,000 drawings in the design of each engine

The BMW engine weighs less than 90 kilograms

At 19,000 rpm, 316.7 revolutions and 1,583.3 ignitions take place each second in the BMW F1 engine. 9,500 engine speed measurements are made, the pistons cover a distance of 25 metres, and 550 litres of air are drawn in

In the P84, maximum piston acceleration was 10,000g. Peak piston speed was 40 metres per second

1.3 terabytes of aero data processed in CFD (1 terabyte is a thousand million bytes, equivalent to 69,333 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

250,000 man hours of design time has been spent on the FW27, with a further

250,000 man hours required in fabrication and build 4,500 drawings have been produced in the design of the FW27 chassis. End-on-end, these drawings would stretch for 5,350km with a further 4,000 expected to be

produced to support the FW27's lifecycle. By the end of the season, drawings would reach from London to Buenos Aires

[walkingpig]

*gasp*

[benm]

How hot is boiling point?

[KamikazeR33]

lmao

boiling point of water or boiling point of?

[benm]

even the air temperature in the pneumatic valve system reaches temperatures two and half times boiling point at 2500C

Well i'd assume boiling point is 100c meaning its 25x boiling point .... or did I do "Science for life" for a reason?

[knore]

And all he has to do is drive it :wassup:

lucky bastard

[R33Hesh]

"The FW27 will accelerate from standing to 200kmh in five seconds, and deceleration forces on board will reach 5g. 1g equates to driving into a brick wall at 30kmh. Brake temperatures to generate the deceleration will reach 6000C in one second "

thats wat i heard on channel 10 news today

[nmcmahon83]

I think you will find something happenened in the interpretation and it last last '0' in the numbers should be the degree symbol...

Still mighty impressive.