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Bugatti Veyron - Components

For those of you who are interested in the 'bits', here are a selection of the key parts.

 

Not a complete rundown by covers the main mechanicals and load-bearing structures.

 

Car is 'drivable' with rear engine/transaxle, front tub and front drive assembly module.

 

Engine is an eight cylinder in 'W' format. That is two Vee-fours with their crankshafts gearedto a cenntral drive shaft.

 

Front and rear suspension are both by swing axles and sprung by torsion bars. The front suspension module plus straing into the front of the stressed tub and is completely self contained for load paths. The rear suspension feefs the loadparths into the engine assembly.

 

Not on the engine module the heat exchangers mounted in front of the rear wheels as well as behing the rear suspension module. The real Veyron has 13 heat exchangers in all. The detailing on the top of the engine asembly replicates the intake system and air-air intercoolers for the charge air.

 

One of the included images has the entire vehicle assembly arrayed.

 

Please feel free to ask any questions or request further techincal information regarding the model.

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Uploaded on July 18, 2010
Taken on July 12, 2010