Name: The Most Important Part of Going Fast - /ENGINEERED
Uploaded: 2021-05-03T18:04:23.630564+00:00
Duration: 1102 s
Channel: Scott Schlichter

Scott Schlichter

Learn on Monday, wrench smarter on Sunday. 

Introducing a NEW series on /DRIVE, aimed at educating you to build a faster, better, more reliable car:  /ENGINEERED. We want to empower our fellow enthusiasts to know more, and do more, by learning from some of the best engineers in the game. 

Heat management is the most overlooked problem in modified cars. Adding power or braking is easy, it's keeping those systems working that's hard. Betim Berisha, founder of BBI Autosport and one of the primary engineers on Jeff Zwart's Pikes Peak car, explains why few people think about it, and why they have to. 


Watch Jeff Zwart's 2014 Pike's Peak Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-pm1r4694

Watch Matt Farah test BBI's EXCEPTIONAL 997 Porsche Turbo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxnXYzYWZk


Thanks to Will Roegge for Pikes Peak footage. Go watch his channel. No, seriously.

Learn on Monday, wrench smarter on Sunday. Introducing a NEW series on /DRIVE, aimed at educating you to build a faster, better, more reliable car: /ENGINEERED. We want to empower our fellow enthusiasts to know more, and do more, by learning from some of the best engineers in the game. Heat management is the most overlooked problem in modified cars. Adding power or braking is easy, it's keeping those systems working that's hard. Betim Berisha, founder of BBI Autosport and one of the primary engineers on Jeff Zwart's Pikes Peak car, explains why few people think about it, and why they have to. Watch Jeff Zwart's 2014 Pike's Peak Run: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-pm1r4694" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-pm1r4694</a>Watch Matt Farah test BBI's EXCEPTIONAL 997 Porsche Turbo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxnXYzYWZk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxnXYzYWZk</a>Thanks to Will Roegge for Pikes Peak footage. Go watch his channel. No, seriously.

 I'm a endurance race car technician and a crew guy. I've

 The heat is the limit of everything. Every time we design

 Make a radiator tilt forward, make the hood look nice and

 the veins in the front of the car are actually trying to

 increase surface area by two times by Nano sized aluminum

 cooling systems are still not as efficient as endurance race

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 I'm a endurance race car technician and a crew guy. I've worked on a lot of endurance race cars. What are some of the biggest challenges when it comes to building endurance race cars?

 The heat is the limit of everything. Every time we design something or take on a challenge, it is literally identifying the limits which start at heat and then we work our way backwards.

 Make a radiator tilt forward, make the hood look nice and airflow is better, less drag, more frontal down force, so it's all of it's trying to get rid of heat.

 the veins in the front of the car are actually trying to exchange kinetic energy into the atmosphere and dissipate it at a lower temperature so they last longer and brake pedal and see you don't boil your fluids.

 increase surface area by two times by Nano sized aluminum particles on heat exchangers, increasing thermal efficiency by pulling heat out of the ambient environment.

 cooling systems are still not as efficient as endurance race cars because our peak power output is so high. How can we improve the cooling system efficiency of our endurance race cars?