Ferrari F140B

[crasherror]

Down shift 12,000RPM and BOOOOOOOOM

[crasherror]

200K down the drain.

[alondahan]

actually the F1 gearbox won't downshift if it's going to overrev. that's true for the road cars as well as the F1 cars.

[SFDMALEX]

Originally Posted by alondahan actually the F1 gearbox won't downshift if it's going to overrev. that's true for the road cars as well as the F1 cars.

I'm more then sure that it will ret over rev. HOw do I know?
1) Seen plenty of on board vidoes of the F1 360 were the guy downshifted early and I could here the engine scream out 900rpm.

2) When I was with SBDT and we did 360Challenge, all of the gearbox data we got let the engine over rev.

[altedza]

Originally Posted by SilviaS15Cwest Wow, that is cool.

[maalox]

Originally Posted by alondahan actually the F1 gearbox won't downshift if it's going to overrev. that's true for the road cars as well as the F1 cars.

Yeah I'm pretty sure you're right. I remember reading specifically that the Enzo's box did not allow over-revving as it was street biased. However, it does let you choose the "wrong" gear and hold it right to redline (even bouncing off the limiter).

[veilsidebr]

Very cool article.. thanks too

[nejcdolinsek]

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[DMbaseball1604]

Thanks for the article!

[Svensson]

Originally Posted by SFDMALEX Originally Posted by alondahan actually the F1 gearbox won't downshift if it's going to overrev. that's true for the road cars as well as the F1 cars. I'm more then sure that it will ret over rev.

I'm pretty sure that the computer won't let you over rev it when downshifting.
When you're quickly downshifting a couple of gears with an F1-style transmission like the Enzo's, it's easy to press the left paddle one time too much and that way blow and ruin the engine. So I can't imagine that Ferrari hasn't built in some sort of fool proof in the Enzo's computer to prevent this from happening, especially since it's an extremely expensive engine...

BMW has built a similar fool proof system into the M3 SMGII.