So hopefully everyone will find this of some interest!
Aston Martin AMR-One Chassis 001 rebuild.
Background info:
Going to be lazy here and point you in the direction of a website which explains all about the car/project :http://www.amr-teams.co.uk/2011/03/aston-martin-racing-amr-one-for-le-mans.html
What happened?
Well the short story...Aston Martin Racing/Prodrive, as they will admit, took on too big of a project in a far too tight of timeframe and with far less money than Audi & Peugeot spent at the time. Therefore the car was underdeveloped and the 009 car lasted I think one lap and the 007 car lasted 6 laps of LeMans 2011 due to engine failure....A huge disaster!
Anyway the project was cancelled after LeMans and chassis 001 (they only created 4 in the end. Two went to form the Nissan Deltawing and the last remaining one went to Pescarolo to create their DOME/Pescarolo car for this years LeMans) was stripped back to a tub with wiring loom and some other parts left in it.
How we are involved:
Aston Martin Racing put the car and all the bits remaining from the project up for sale this summer in a private sale. We found a buyer for them, who will remain private, however he is a large UK based car collector with a VERY nice collection, and he wants the car back to running condition so thats where this thread comes in...I thought I would share the rebuild with you as its not often modern LMP1 cars can be seen in such detail.
Car collection:
We went down to AMR to collect the tub, two gearboxes and about 30 boxes of components. Apparently this is only about a third of the bits so far as many of the larger components are in storage such as bodywork etc.
Unload and build:
So we unloaded the collected parts and components and set the tub up on its build stands on one of our engineering floors.
Over the past week we have been assessing the parts we currently have and whats missing to complete the car and bolting together as much as we can. As you can imagine from a works LMP1 project everything is made & designed to an extremely high quality and bolted together with the finest fasteners.
View from the drivers seat:
The Steering Wheel!
Last couple of days I have bolted the front wishbones on and sorted out, ready to be bolted on, the front upright assemblies with the carbon 'cake tin' brake ducts etc. Few pictures of that...
I then fitted the rear upright assemblies, complete cake tin assemblies, carbon brake discs, monobloc Brembo calipers with carbon pads and then finally the wheels just to see how wide the rear end is going to be. All of those components bolt directly to the gearbox as the gearbox is a stress baring component to save weight.
I will get more detailed pictures of the components, but got a bit excited putting the bits together that I only took pictures of the end result....
Had to check the car would fit through a doorway before we got too far down the line!
I then bolted the front dampers on..
Theres still a third damper to be fitted to the front which helps 'dampen' front dive under braking. There is also a third damper on the rear suspension to help 'dampen' the rear squatting down under acceleration. This is to keep the car as level as possible to help aero stability.
Thats all I have for now, will update more as and when I fit more bits....
P.S Sorry for the camera phone pictures!
Aston Martin AMR-One Chassis 001 rebuild.
Background info:
Going to be lazy here and point you in the direction of a website which explains all about the car/project :http://www.amr-teams.co.uk/2011/03/aston-martin-racing-amr-one-for-le-mans.html
What happened?
Well the short story...Aston Martin Racing/Prodrive, as they will admit, took on too big of a project in a far too tight of timeframe and with far less money than Audi & Peugeot spent at the time. Therefore the car was underdeveloped and the 009 car lasted I think one lap and the 007 car lasted 6 laps of LeMans 2011 due to engine failure....A huge disaster!
Anyway the project was cancelled after LeMans and chassis 001 (they only created 4 in the end. Two went to form the Nissan Deltawing and the last remaining one went to Pescarolo to create their DOME/Pescarolo car for this years LeMans) was stripped back to a tub with wiring loom and some other parts left in it.
How we are involved:
Aston Martin Racing put the car and all the bits remaining from the project up for sale this summer in a private sale. We found a buyer for them, who will remain private, however he is a large UK based car collector with a VERY nice collection, and he wants the car back to running condition so thats where this thread comes in...I thought I would share the rebuild with you as its not often modern LMP1 cars can be seen in such detail.
Car collection:
We went down to AMR to collect the tub, two gearboxes and about 30 boxes of components. Apparently this is only about a third of the bits so far as many of the larger components are in storage such as bodywork etc.
Unload and build:
So we unloaded the collected parts and components and set the tub up on its build stands on one of our engineering floors.
Over the past week we have been assessing the parts we currently have and whats missing to complete the car and bolting together as much as we can. As you can imagine from a works LMP1 project everything is made & designed to an extremely high quality and bolted together with the finest fasteners.
View from the drivers seat:
The Steering Wheel!
Last couple of days I have bolted the front wishbones on and sorted out, ready to be bolted on, the front upright assemblies with the carbon 'cake tin' brake ducts etc. Few pictures of that...
I then fitted the rear upright assemblies, complete cake tin assemblies, carbon brake discs, monobloc Brembo calipers with carbon pads and then finally the wheels just to see how wide the rear end is going to be. All of those components bolt directly to the gearbox as the gearbox is a stress baring component to save weight.
I will get more detailed pictures of the components, but got a bit excited putting the bits together that I only took pictures of the end result....
Had to check the car would fit through a doorway before we got too far down the line!
I then bolted the front dampers on..
Theres still a third damper to be fitted to the front which helps 'dampen' front dive under braking. There is also a third damper on the rear suspension to help 'dampen' the rear squatting down under acceleration. This is to keep the car as level as possible to help aero stability.
Thats all I have for now, will update more as and when I fit more bits....
P.S Sorry for the camera phone pictures!
