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The brake reservoirs are mounted very high and poke through the tub by a large amount. Looks to be a bit low on fluid as well.
You can see that the front uprights have a pretty wide scrub radius. Again, lightly loaded skinny tires=don't matter? Steering appears to have anti Ackerman geometry although it's hard to tell in a picture. Big brake ducts feed blown hubs? Skinny tires and short arms mean low loads. Check out how small and lightly constructed everything looks.
The pedal box assembly is pretty typical. The clutch reservoir is buried down in the tub, must be a bitch considering how easy the reservoirs for the brakes are to get to!
Look the inlet hose is made by MotoIQ sponsor HPS! You can also see the Tial blow off valve. If some of the engine bay looks cobbley remember that the engine integration with the chassis was done in less than 10 days. When Nissan pulled the plug the team had to scramble to find a replacement powerplant, Unfortunately the engine of the DeltaWing is buried very deeply into the bodywork and rear recesses of the tub so we could not get good pictures of it.
The engine is built by Elan Technologies and is based off of Mazda MZR architecture. It uses a MZR direct injection head on a billet block machined by Elan Technologies. The billet block is going to be replaced by a carbon fiber block soon that is undergoing development as this is written. Currently the engine weighs only 165 lbs, about 10 more than the Nissan engine it replaced and with a carbon block will weigh even less which goes along with the DeltaWing's less is more concept.
The engine displaces 1.9 liters and is a direct injection turbocharged motor that develops about 335 hp, 35 more than the Nissan and 270 lb ft of torque. The DeltaWing is a car of halves. It weighs half as much as a typical P1 car, has half the downforce, half the drag and half the power. Presumably this means much less fuel consumption and longer tire life which should be great for endurance racing. The engine did not come close to fitting in the back of the car as it was much larger in foot print than the old Nissan and the team only had days to get it in the car and running! Because of this you can understand if the car has more of a tuner shop feel rather than a P1 team look to things.
We think the turbo is a Borg Warner EFR unit, perhaps one of our readers in the know can confirm this.
The intake manifold is an SLA part. SLA parts have come a long way in the last few years and with advances in resins, you can actually use the SLA part in real life!
We think this duct feeds the engine air box which is buried somewhere. The Nissan engine took in air from just under the passenger side vertical fin. This opening is now blocked off. The duct is located near the tunnel exit which we think is a bad place to be aerodynamic wise. However at LeMans with the Nissan motor the car had an oil cooler hanging out in the breeze near the same location!
