Images
courtesy and copyright Bob
Chapman @ Autosport Image and Michael
J. Fuller
Text
copyright
Michael
J. Fuller
The
intake in front of the rear wheel is for rear brake cooling. |
Cooling
hose for the brake and caliper connect to the brake airbox that is intergral to the sidepod structure. |
Creation's
DBA sprouted a more aggresive brake duct inlet in 2005 (shown here at Le
Mans). |
Note
the internal shaping in the engine bay that forms an air smoothing
internal
fender in front of the rear wheel. This helps clean up the air
flowing around the tire that has been directed there from the radiator,
and attempts to control the rather chaotic internal airflow. |
The
very diminutive 3.4 liter Zytek V8 power plant and three years of engine
installations on the DBA, note small changes in radiator plumbing, heat
shielding, and exhaust header design: |
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The
boomerang air intake. Note the legality structure below the intake.
It helps maintain the dimensional regulation that states that engine
intakes cannot be more than 20 cm above the bodywork. |