McLaren F1 Tour v2 - May 2014

[Sami Aaltonen]

Originally Posted by Sparco_bro

Here's another video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOuxnlxCH2E This was the last day of the tour...I hope you like it!

The GTR's sound once again...!

[Sparco_bro]

Originally Posted by Sami Aaltonen

The GTR's sound once again...!

A video fully dedicated to the sound of GTRs is coming, I think you're gonna love it!

[M.S.O]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

It's appears to be the first F1 to wear dual HID lamps.

>8^)
ER

Close but not quite.

[Peloton25]

Well there's an obvious color temperature difference here for starters, but the other item that you don't usually see is all four lamps working at the same time. I thought perhaps he simply had his high beams engaged when he switched on the lights, but perhaps that's the difference you are quizzing us on?



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ER

[M.S.O]

All 4 lights are illuminated when main beam is engaged on all cars. These look blue so probably just been turned on and heating up.
You will need some close up images and proper geekery to see the differences in the headlights I'm afraid!

[Peloton25]

#ShouldHaveBeenThere

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ER

[Le Man]

Originally Posted by M.S.O

All 4 lights are illuminated when main beam is engaged on all cars. These look blue so probably just been turned on and heating up.
You will need some close up images and proper geekery to see the differences in the headlights I'm afraid!

There is also (maybe) something unique going on with the rear lanps on this UK registered F1, anyone else spot it

[Peloton25]

Originally Posted by M.S.O

All 4 lights are illuminated when main beam is engaged on all cars.

BTW: When you say "main beam" are you referring to the High -vs- Low or simply the outer position -vs- inner position?

Because originally what we refer to as the 'low beam' here (what some might call the regular headlights/headlamps) occupied the outer position on the F1 and of course when those were illuminated the other light was off, so I suspect you mean the opposite. I would be tempted to refer to those as the main beam myself, since they are used the majority of the time.

On the cars which have received HID upgrades up to this point (barring 059) the positioning has been reversed with the inner lamp location becoming the low beam and the larger outer lamp taking up duty as the "brights" or high beam lamp.

Anyway, I was aware that with the high beams engaged on an F1 the low beam lamp would remain illuminated, and figured that's why all four lamps were lit on 'F1 JOY' as it exited there. Was speculating, however, that perhaps this setup had been modified so that all four were always lit, whether low or high selected. Not sure how you'd manage the shutter for required cut-off effect in that larger lamp though.

>8^)
ER

PS: Is this proper enough geekery for you?

[Sami Aaltonen]

Originally Posted by Sparco_bro

A video fully dedicated to the sound of GTRs is coming, I think you're gonna love it!

OK. I'm looking forward to see it!

[carbuilder2002]

You could reasonably put high/low beam bulbs in both lights that would give you all for lit on either low or high beam, I had a similar set up on a Jaguar XJ Coupe in the early 80's to good effect light wise. Granted there is slight glare due to the differing lenses but other road users didn't seem to notice it.

[hurstg01]

Anyone else notice #061's reversing light was on the opposite side to #046's?....

[carbuilder2002]

I am sure the fog and reversing lights can be swapped to suit the country of use.
There also seems to be a lot of fluffed gearchanges being made and noticable stalling, is this indicative of the infrequency of driving that the owners have done or are the GTR's just difficult to get moving cleanly?

[Peloton25]

I think we were just seeing a bunch of cold gearboxes. They can be a little finicky.

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ER

[carbuilder2002]

Yep Eric it's been quite a few years since I have driven a car with a racing box and forget how awkward they can be when cold, Hewland were always particularly bad I recall. I had assumed they warmed the engines up before setting off but that would not do much good with the boxes.

[M.S.O]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

BTW: When you say "main beam" are you referring to the High -vs- Low or simply the outer position -vs- inner position?

Main beam vs dipped beam (ie when you push the stalk forward and get full lights.
Your not quite there yet and I dont think anyone will until they see the lights close up, as I said, a very geeky difference but something I knew you chaps would relish