Hey folks!
Tim.Wright wrote:I will be disappointed if a working rear view camera is'nt your model paul
Ok, then stop watching my construction report!!!
I build the 2011 car. Rear view camera was introduced first in 2012.
The first real time since September, I have a bit time to continue building on my Audi. It's still an amazing car. I continued on the cooling system. More precisely on the water radiators. They are insanely big. Much bigger than the ones at the RB7. But considering the fact, that the Red Bull runs 1.5 hrs in Monza by 70% full throttle or two hrs in Spa Francorchamps by 65% full throttle and the Audi runs 24 hrs by 85% full throttle in Le Mans you shouldn't wonder that the Audis radiators are much bigger than F1 radiators. At the current status, namely the fixed intercoolers and the finished water radiators, you can see the whole mass of the car. It's insanely wide and voluminous. F1 car's max. width is 1800mm and 1400mm chassis width. LMP's are allowed to be 2000mm (tyres and chassis). Finally the engine is fitted to the monocoque. Before I did that, I had to do the holes at the front (for nose attachment) and rear (for engine fixing and engine cover attachment). That was a difficult work. Because of the strenght of my chassis, I had to use a needle, a nail and a hammer. Locating the point with the needle and then hammering in the nail into the chassis. It works extremely satisfactory.
Left hand side water radiator with it's air guide. I'm not sure at the mo, what for the two ducts are. One of them I guess is for the Diesel cooling. For the second one I've no Idea (maybe also Diesel cooling...?).
The radiator itself got quite well. The line connections were a bit more complicated than the ones at the RB7, but I managed to do them very well.
The single left hand water radiator with it's mounted air guide.
Another view of the left hand side water radiator.
The two water radiators. Only the left one had these two ducts. At least to follow my research.
Pics of this area of the car are quite rare. Even if there's the cut-Audi around. But that's an e-tron-quattro/ultra and not a TDI. There are quite big differences between the 2011 and the 2012 cars.
Here you can see the relatively small air intake for the big water radiators. But with that fat intercoolers beside the cockpit, there's almost no alternative.
A view from top. Here you can see the whole witdh of the whole engine/cooling arrangement.
A view from the rear.
Another rear view.
That's it for the mo, thanks for watching!
Cheers,
Paul
