Honda Power Unit Hardware & Software

[muzzytt]

When you build an engine you balance the rotating assembly.

So how does such bad vibrations exist?

I mean it could be the gearbox or the side mounted mgu but to not find this to this day is astonishing especially for a company like Honda

[Holm86]

When you build an engine you balance the rotating assembly.

So how does such bad vibrations exist?

I mean it could be the gearbox or the side mounted mgu but to not find this to this day is astonishing especially for a company like Honda

I also don't understand, the engine architecture is the exact same as last time Honda was in F1, just with less power and no MGU-H. How can they get it so wrong

[FNTC]

The MGU-K is 3x the size this year, and also sits next to the battery. Might be part of the issue.

[Farnborough]

There's enormous shift in regeneration passing through the crankshaft now, in comparison to previous generation of PU.

Also has to be used far more in each lap to very high degree than before.

Pistons driving a crankshaft will have a different effect to that of driving a "remote" MGU-K at front end of crankshaft by input from gearbox at the other end.
Significantly different demands to last rules.

The MGU-K will have it's own typical wave form input to crankshaft assembly when in maximum ouput too. Its more complicated than superficial views indicate, not just slapping on a bigger generation hardware to last years PU hardware.