Speaking to.That doesn’t leave us completely in the dark, as there are tell-tale clues as to where the BT62’s power is sourced from.The first is a photo of the 5.4-litre unit sporting drool-worthy velocity stacks snapped during the BT62’s public reveal at Australia House in London.The casting shapes of the Brabham-branded engine are practically identical to those seen on Ford’s Modular V8 engine family, most well-known in 5.0-litre ‘Coyote’ format, as used in the current Mustang.Numerous versions of the Ford Modular V8 are available in production cars and as create engines. The BT62 is powered by a mid-mounted 5.4-litre naturally-aspirated,The chassis of the BT62 uses what Brabham calls a ‘tubular metallic architecture’ and the body features lightweight,The interior is relatively sparse as the BT62 is built for track day driving and features,Brabham intends to produce 70 cars to celebrate the 70 years since the company founder.Although the BT62 in its standard form is not road-legal, Brabham offers a road legal conversion to its customers with the conversion and registration process being carried out in the U.K. after going through an IVA (Independent Vehicle Assessment).The BT62 made its racing debut in the infamous 'Into the Night' race at,"Brabham BT62 First Look: For Serious Track-Rats Only - Motor Trend","The Brabham BT62 is a £1.2m, 700bhp track-only supercar","Here's the Brabham BT62: The $1 million-plus hypercar with big Le Mans dreams","The Brabham BT62 Is a 700-Horsepower Track Slayer","Hell Yes You Can Make Your Brabham BT62 Road Legal","The Brabham BT62 can be made road legal","Goodyear and Brabham Automotive announce global partnership","BRABHAM AUTOMOTIVE ANNOUNCE DRIVERS FOR BT62 RACING DEBUT","Brabham Automotive Announce Drivers for BT62 Racing Debut","Brands Hatch Night Race 1: Brabham BT62 Wins on Race Debut","Brands Hatch Night Race 2: Moss Motorsport BMW 1M Realises Potential","2019 BRITCAR CHAMPION TO RACE HIS BRABHAM BT62 FOR 2020 CAMPAIGN",https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brabham_BT62&oldid=974639406,Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles,Pages using infobox automobile with unknown parameters,Articles with unsourced statements from June 2018,Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. And that’s been worked on and agreed with the OEM that the engineering work is such that the engine can be called a Brabham engine based on its departure from anything that they do in any sector of automotive.”.Reynolds refrained from commenting on the engine’s – possibly blue and oval – origins.“It’s quite important if you look at the historic nature of the [Brabham] brand, and how the brand has been successful, it’s been the sum of its engineering and ingenuity from doing the right things at the right time,” he added.“We’ve done that with the engine. The Brabham BT62 remains one of the wildest mid-engine cars ever. Brabham says it’s their own engine.
It was introduced in 2018 with deliveries expected to start at the end of that year. We’ve customised and re-engineered an engine to be very, very specific to this vehicle, so for me I’d like people to understand that this engine is Brabham’s engine. Christian Reynolds, an Australian-based Brabham Automotive director who oversees the BT62’s manufacture at the Adelaide factory, confirmed that the V8 engine is supplied by a third-party, and then heavily modified by the company. It was introduced in 2018 with deliveries expected to start at the end of that year. Here’s the story of how it happened, in David Brabham’s own words.© Copyright Bauer Media Pty Limited. You cannot go out and procure an engine of this configuration.”.While it’s highly likely the BT62 engine starts life as a Ford, how the team behind the track-only supercar has extracted so much power with a relatively low compression ratio and no forced induction is a point of interest.Brabham’s version of the engine produces circa-100kW more than any other naturally aspirated V8 from the Ford family, though as a track car it doesn’t need to comply with any emissions regulations.Wheels understands the BT62 has been specified with a flex-fuel sensor to allow the tanks to be filled with E85 juice, or premium unleaded petrol. You cannot replicate this engine. Ford uses a 5.2-litre variant called ‘Voodoo’ to power the 2018 Mustang GT350R. In that iteration the engine, fitted with a flat plane crankshaft, produces 392kW at 7500rpm and 482Nm at 4750rpm.While the Voodoo uses a higher compression ratio (12.0:1) it has the same 94mm stroke as the Brabham engine, though a narrower 93mm bore resulting in the smaller overall capacity.Christian Reynolds, an Australian-based Brabham Automotive director who oversees the BT62’s manufacture at the Adelaide factory, confirmed that the V8 engine is supplied by a third-party, and then heavily modified by the company.“We engaged an OEM and talked to them about a personalised development program,” he explained.“They were supportive of engaging with us at that level, but we took an OEM engine and then we heavily customised it to suit the attributes and the DNA of a Brabham vehicle.