Force India VJM04 Mercedes

[Morteza]

Isn't this the same as the mclaren unit?

It should be. They use McLaren gearboxes.

[MIKEY_!]

The hole under the crash structure, is that for any kind of blowing?

[wesley123]

I think it is quite clear there is still a piece missing

[MIKEY_!]

but seriously whats that bit for?

[wesley123]

it is just the underside of the crashbox and a small piece on the end is still missing

[scarbs]

This is the same as the Mac gearbox.

Note a few interesting things:
The case has open sides, you can see that some airflow passes from the sides up into the centre. they have some cable passign through this gap.

The antiroll bar sits on top of the case, the pull rods are obviously low down and no dampers or stuff are on the sides of the case. Not visible here, but I know the torsion bars are vertical. I still cant work out how the pull rod rocker operates on the dampers\heave spring and ARB.

That missing rear section is probably the fairign that joins the lower crash structure to the diffusers central gurney.

[marcush.]

the window for the lower end of the pullrod seems to be a bit off the rod ...so if the torsion bar is mounted in the svivel point of the rocker and the rocker then has to be monted near horizontally the torsion bar could well be near vertical(/angled a bit towards the car centreline in y-direction) towards the front face of the gearbox ..still very hard to get things properly ligning up ...so maybe there is more kinematics involved ...

[hardingfv32]

When it is said that this is the same gearbox as McLaren, does that mean the same transmission mounted suspension components (rockers,etc.) and locations?

Brian