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Old 23 Apr 2014, 17:22 (Ref:3397356)   #6209
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Originally Posted by gwyllion View Post
The wider "look" of the nose is merely deception.


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The tub and the nose cone are the same. Audi is not going to crash test two different noses.
Why not ? ... if there is a part that is easy to make many different setups is the nose section.

But there is more... don't know how much of the all front section, this easily replaceable nose section encompasses... the attachments indicated by the red arrows seems in the same positions (tough the original in the below image doesn't have this red arrows)... but , how we say in English, the front plates that have the Michelin doll, that in the original tub (below) end practically on the same level of the words Mahle and Bosch, on this new tub at Monza end much lower, that is this plates are visible less inclined... does it mean a *different new* tub ? ... not only the front section ?

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The rear fender on the LM aero is longer than on the WEC aero. And the brake cooling has also moved.


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An the rear section is not only "long tail"... the section that prolongs in front of the rear fender and that has the rear brakes cooling air intakes... on the *new tub at monza" prolongs even further in front and doesn't seem to have the rear brake cooling air intake in the same position..

Also the lateral air diffusers just behind the front fenders are quite different in the "new Monza tub".

Could this be a totally *different tub* just besides easily replaceable ( and so modifiable) front a rear section ?

Also i don't remember if it was written in some article, the engine is 4L and is a 2 MJ class, but does it have a MGU-H or not ?

An MGU-H could be like an additional auxiliary "alternator", they could even have a less size less drag normal alternator attached to the engine, and then run everything else, all other ancillary pumps & systems by electric means... doubt with 4L that the turbo presuure will be superior to the 2.8 bar of 2013, and up to the 5 bar or more that is possible, there is plenty of energy in that exhaust flow for this electric trick, that could compensate plenty having only 2MJ hybrid.
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