STINTLINE Feature Overview
Motorsport Technical Manual
Every race car comes with a technical manual – torque settings, fluid capacities, gear ratios, set-up references, bleed procedures. It usually lives as a PDF on someone’s laptop, and the mechanic who needs the caliper bolt torque at midnight is scrolling through 200 pages to find it. Stintline’s Technical Manual puts that information on the car itself: open a component and its torque settings, drawings and procedures are right there.
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The Manual Lives on the Car
A technical manual is only useful if it is open at the right page at the right moment. In a pit garage that moment is usually with a torque wrench in one hand and a phone in the other.
In Stintline the manual is broken into entries and each entry sits where it is needed: wheel nut torque on the wheel, bleed screw torque on the brake caliper, gear ratios on the gearbox. Open the part and the information you need is the only thing on the page.
Torque Settings, Specs and Procedures
Entries can be a single line of text, formatted notes with tables and headings, a drawing or photo, or a document such as the manufacturer’s PDF. Mix them as you need: a torque table on a subassembly, a step-by-step bleed procedure on the ABS unit, an exploded drawing on the upright.
Everything is written for a mechanic to read, not for a database to analyse. If it would be in the printed manual, it can go in the Stintline one.
Written Once Per Vehicle Template
The manual is written against the vehicle template, not against each car. Set up the Gearbox Assembly entry once and every car built from that template carries it, including cars you add next season.
Part numbers, specifications and torque values change with a bulletin, not with each chassis. Update the entry on the template and every car shows the new value straight away.
Vehicle, Subassembly and Component Entries
Some information belongs to the whole car – dimensions, fluid fills, base set-up. Some belongs to a corner – the torque table for a front suspension assembly. Most belongs to a single part.
Stintline keeps all three levels in one manual. The vehicle page shows the car-level entries, a suspension corner shows its own, and each component shows the entries written for its type.
Vehicle Facts Shown Where You Look for Them
Gear ratios are a vehicle fact, but nobody goes looking for them on the vehicle page – they look at the gearbox. Any vehicle-level entry can also be shown on the component types and subassembly types where a mechanic would expect to find it.
The entry is still written once. The gearbox, the tyres and the brake calipers simply show the vehicle entries that apply to them, marked as coming from the vehicle, so there is never a second copy to keep in step.
Drawings and Photos That Can Differ Per Car
Text in the manual is the same for every car built from the template. Pictures and documents sometimes are not: a wiring photo of this chassis, a set-up sheet scan for that one.
An image or document entry can carry a standard file from the template and an override on a specific vehicle, component or subassembly. The override shows on that car, the standard shows on the rest.
Copy a Template, Keep the Manual
Copying a vehicle template copies its Technical Manual with it, entries, links and standard files. Start the new season’s template from last year’s and the manual comes along.
Within an account or between accounts, the structure and the content arrive together, so a new template is never a blank manual.
Who Can Read and Who Can Edit
Reading follows vehicle access. People see the manual for the cars they are allowed to work on, and viewers can read it but not change it.
Editing the manual is a template task, so it sits with the people who manage your vehicle templates. Mechanics read the torque table; the chief engineer decides what is in it.
Where to Find It
Technical Manual entries are defined on the vehicle template. Once a template has entries, a Technical Manual tab appears on that template’s vehicles, subassemblies and components, showing only the entries that apply to the record you are looking at. Nothing to set up on each car: build the manual once on the template and every car shows it.
Availability
The Technical Manual is included on the Team and Team Pro plans. Images and documents in the manual count towards the plan’s document storage – 5 GB on Team and 20 GB on Team Pro.
Built for the Whole Team
Team managers get one source of truth for specifications. Engineers write the procedure once and stop answering the same question by text message.
Mechanics get the right torque value on the right part, at midnight, with one hand. Workshops running customer cars on the same template keep one manual for all of them.