RACE ENGINE TECHNOLOGY 154 August/September 2024
- Intro: The editor - Ian Bamsey highlights evocative V16s and sounds out the rumbustious Top Fuel V8
- Upfront: Hydrogen at Le Mans - The ACO has embraced the concept of hydrogen fuel with 2028 as the starting line. RET got the inside story from two companies behind an H2ICE test vehicle, now well-proven on track
- Dossier: Compressed Air Camaro - There have been various attempts to make the boost-in-a-bottle idea a reality, but always with setbacks. Now, a unique system is helping a Texan drag racer to victory, as Mike Magda reports
- Focus: Retro valvetrain - Finding parts such as valves and springs for the restoration of vintage engines isn’t a simple task –they need to be correctly specified and can be hard to source, as Matt Grant finds out
- eRace: Ford SuperTruck - Andrew Noakes reports on the electric racer that set new records at the Pikes Peak hillclimb
- Insight: Kalitta Motorsports - Ian Bamsey investigates how a title-winning operation is honing its Top Fuel engines, the keys being experience, databases and tuning knowledge. With research by Anne Proffit
- Focus: Data acquisition & sensors - The networked measurement devices in a racecar powertrain are like the human body’s nervous system, all working to ensure everything ticks along smoothly. Matt Grant explains how they work
- Expo: Engineering the future - Andrew Noakes rounds up some intriguing products and services aimed at motorsport professionals, including battery management, calibration and diagnostics, strain gauges, thermal paints, turbochargers and eddy current testers
- PS: Droning engines - Has Formula One lost its way when it comes to electrification? John Coxon is minded to recall a CVT experience back in the day