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Originally Posted by GasperG
OK, one fuel flow sensor cost £4,500, how many do you need?
Is that really too much for privater to take? |
Its not just the cost to buy the sensor, its also a big task to make everything around the sensor work, making the engine run to max fuelflow and staying within the allocated fuel/3 laps. During the race they have a few people whos only task is monitoring this.
Its a far more advanced technology then just slap a inletrestrictor on, map the ECU after it, and then run it wihtout further adjustments.
I belive (if I remember correct) that someone said it cost around 100k€ more per car per year to run fuel flow in WEC then inletrestrictor. I can however remember wrong, but it should be somewhere on the web if someone wants to search. And that is a big dent in a privateers budget!
EDIT: Source:
http://www.dailysportscar.com/2015/1...-proposed.html