V12 engine of 'art work' to hit 1000 horsepower, Aston Martin's hyper car 'Valkyrie' released

The appearance of the V12 engine mounted on the hypercar " Valkyrie " developed under the partnership between Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing was released for the first time. Naturally aspirated V12 engine with a displacement of 6.5 liters is a high-performance engine that squeezes 1000 horsepower at 10,500 revolutions, but it can only be called a "art piece" with the highest technology crystallized, which only weighs just over 200 kg. In the released movie, you can listen to the sounds that the V12 engine roars.

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Valkyrie is an ultra-high performance hyper-car whose Aston Martin is developing with Red Bull Racing. Valkyrie, a racing car designer nicknamed "aero of aerodynamics," Adrian New Way's hands Valkyrie will be equipped with a 6.5 liter V12 engine that demonstrates 1000 horsepower on about 1 ton lightweight body. The price is estimated to be around 2 million to 2.5 million pounds (about 300 million to 375 million yen), and the number of production is 150 worldwide. We have received orders of 11 in Japan as well.

Looking down on the car body from behind, the bottom of the car body is opened open like this. This is to generate the force "downforce" that pushes the vehicle body against the road surface by flowing air to the bottom of the car body. The know-how cultivated by the designer 's New Way in Formula 1 machines etc is put on.

In October 2017, Valkyrie was showing an interior and exterior exhibition in Japan.

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Such Valkyrie is installed in this V12 engine. The engine developed by 'Cosworth', a prestigious racing engine, demonstrates at 1,500 rpm of rebri mitting power output of 1,000 horsepower while using a naturally aspirated engine without using a turbocharger. In actual vehicles, this ultra-high performance engine will be mounted in the midship and the hybrid system using the electric motor will be assisted.

The weight of the engine itself is 206 kg and there is nothing other than a phenomenal weight with this large V12 engine with as many as 12 cylinders. Valkyrie uses this engine as a structural material of the car body for weight saving, and its construction is exactly the racing car itself.

This person is Bruce Wood, Managing Director of Cosworth. We have been developing with the aim of achieving high performance in every aspect including power and weight required for Valkyrie's engine, clearing exhaust gas regulation as a road going car and high durability.

To start developing this engine in Cosworth, I first said that we pursued performance with a three-cylinder test engine. By combining four 3-cylinder engines that have reached about 250 horsepower as a result of development, a 1000-horsepower V12 engine was born. The exhaust manifold (exhaust pipe) which is gathered three cylinders at a time is equipped with a huge catalyst, which shows that it is designed with consideration for the environment.

As mentioned earlier, this engine is integrated with the car body and receives all the stress. A special design is required because the engine body itself is subject to high stress such as the body weight itself, acceleration / deceleration force, cornering force and so on, but the area around that is the racing engine constructor Cosworth's specialty. Body and engine are connected with 4 bolts via such bracket.

I saw the engine from the front. Unlike racing cars, "Very quiet" is required for the V12 engine, which was developed as the "road car" engine to the end. Therefore, if it is an ordinary racing engine, the gear set for cam drive, which is located on the front side, has been moved to the rear of the engine. The noise coming out of the gear for cam drive occupies a part of the noise generated by the engine. If mounted directly on the car body, the gear noise resonated by the chassis bulkhead (bulkhead) jumps into the car and fills up.

This is the clutch part that leads to the gearbox. In order to catch the mighty power produced by the ultra-high performance engine, "carbon clutch" similar to the racing car is indispensable, but the carbon clutch can not secure the comfort of the road car because "ties" are too abrupt. Therefore, Aston Martin said that by adopting a clutch disc of different material, it achieved both comfort and high clutch performance.

V12 engine that puts on engine bench for engine output measurement and makes a lot of pleasure. A part of the exhaust manifold is emitting red with the exhaust gas heat.

On the screen to measure the power of the V12 engine that gives a clear, pleasant exhaust note, "963 HP", that is, 963 horsepower. Since the engine speed at this time is about 9800 rpm, power of 700 rpm is added to it, and 1000 horsepower @ 10500 rpm is launched.

Valkyrie's V12 engine, which is made with thorough commitment, has no breakdown for weight saving. Lightweight and high rigidity parts made of carbon fiber and aluminum honeycomb are used for the intake system, but the designer's New Way has ordered even the weight of the paint used for this part. As a result, it is possible to finish with clear coating like the following under normal specifications, but it is also possible to choose "no clear painting" as an option. The weight difference is only 80 grams , but a thorough sticking to the perfectionist New Way can be seen.

Only the happy owners of only 150 people around the world can stick to this technology and stick to it, and get Valkyrie "money" cast. Eleven vehicles are expected to come to Japan, so I'd like to expect that we can encounter anywhere in the city.