Okay areo genuises..."The Canadian Project"

[Jamski]

This has been picking at me for years, based on something I read in one of the Hungness yearbooks. Supposedly about the same time frame at which they were developing the March and the Theodore, Bignotti-Cotter had some other obscure project in the works. I think Dave Scoggan might have mentioned it in one of his "bits and pieces" stories. As I understand it, someone had the idea of vertically orienting the venturis. B-C thought enough of the notion to at least give it some study. Sneva referred to it as "our Canadian Project".


It was an interesting notion, and with everything I ever heard about F1 cars having to resort to super-stiff suspensions to maintain the ride height, I always wondered if that might have made for a workable solution. Theoretically, anyway, you could have a tunnel whose dimensions would always remain static. How you would implement the low-pressure area might be a bit of a booger, but that's what geniuses are for, after all…


Just wondered if anyone had ever heard of this project, and what if anything ever came of it. I am assuming it wasn't practical just because it wasn't implemented, but maybe it was outlawed somewhere along the way.

[uh_clem]

As I understand it, someone had the idea of vertically orienting the venturis. ... Sneva referred to it as "our Canadian Project".

It kind of sounds like a joke.

[Indyote]

Like with that plastic engine that Hungness mentioned in the '86 yearbook?


Indyote

[ACCP]

Like with that plastic engine that Hungness mentioned in the '86 yearbook?


Indyote

Hey now: http://www.lolaheritage.co.uk/scrapbook/004/004.htm

[uh_clem]

Like with that plastic engine that Hungness mentioned in the '86 yearbook?


Indyote

No. I meant like something that was intentionally funny.
Wasn't that Polimotor car at least moderately successful?

[BADGER]

This has been picking at me for years, based on something I read in one of the Hungness yearbooks. Supposedly about the same time frame at which they were developing the March and the Theodore, Bignotti-Cotter had some other obscure project in the works. I think Dave Scoggan might have mentioned it in one of his "bits and pieces" stories. As I understand it, someone had the idea of vertically orienting the venturis. B-C thought enough of the notion to at least give it some study. Sneva referred to it as "our Canadian Project".


It was an interesting notion, and with everything I ever heard about F1 cars having to resort to super-stiff suspensions to maintain the ride height, I always wondered if that might have made for a workable solution. Theoretically, anyway, you could have a tunnel whose dimensions would always remain static. How you would implement the low-pressure area might be a bit of a booger, but that's what geniuses are for, after all…


Just wondered if anyone had ever heard of this project, and what if anything ever came of it. I am assuming it wasn't practical just because it wasn't implemented, but maybe it was outlawed somewhere along the way.

I can't picture the layout or what you are suggesting. Instead of curving the venturi upwards at the back of the car, you could curve it inwards or outwards. This would likely create low pressure under the car, but I don't think it would be as effective since most early tunnels curved both upwards, but also pinched around the gearbox at the back.

[Indyote]

Hey now: http://www.lolaheritage.co.uk/scrapbook/004/004.htm

I stand corrected. Never read anything like this before that it really existed and worked too.

Thanks for the link.


Indyote