Chapter Eighty-Nine: Is There Really a Rotary Engine?
RB's cars are small and delicate and compact; American cars are spacious, huge, and powerful; French cars are full of elegance; Swedish cars are safe and extraordinary; British cars are traditional and classic and aristocratic style; Italian cars have clear lines and are very dynamic; and German cars pay attention to demeanor and demeanor. There are too many good cars in the world, every brand is excellent, and each model has its own advantages.
And the Chinese car is still staggering......
The automobile industry is an important pillar industry of the country, improve the independent innovation ability of the automobile industry, master the core technology with independent intellectual property rights through independent innovation, and create its own well-known brand, in order to fight in the international competition arena.
Innovation does not come out of thin air, but needs to have a broad and solid national economic production R&D system and relevant government policy support.
Since 1956, with the help of the Soviet Union, China has built its own automobile industry. For decades, China's auto industry has faltered and made slow progress for a variety of reasons. Compared to the RB automotive industry, which started at the same time, we are too far behind. The reason for this is that we do not have a sufficient understanding of the attributes of the automobile industry and social attributes, and we are only satisfied with being able to build cars.
After the reform and opening up, the economic development and social demand are strong, and the government and enterprises emphasize the output, heavy vehicle and light accessories, heavy host and light accessories, and do not make real efforts on independent innovation. This problem can be seen from the organizational structure, personnel structure, and capital allocation ratio of automobile enterprises.
Without input, how can there be output?
Sitting on the plane flying back from Yuecheng, Yang Quan kept thinking about the control of parts in the shaky air flow. News came from Yangfan factory, spare parts piston continuous batch of defects, Luo Daodao returned two defective products immediately reported to Yang Quan here, after obtaining consent, sent quality personnel tens of millions of manufacturers to investigate and improve and found that there were problems with materials.
As soon as the hoist was pressed, the scoop floated again, and another small part of the valve spring broke again. The valve spring is to ensure the closure of the valve and the valve seat when the valve is closed, and the valve moves accurately with the cam when the valve is opened. According to the requirements, the two ends of the spring are rounded and smoothed, the grinding plane should be chamfered, and the minimum thickness of the tail should be more than 0.6mm, and the spring thickness of the uppermost circle should be gradually changed, and the change of the pitch at the parallel circle should be uniform and slow.
From the time of the spring resonance fracture, the thickness of the material not only did not conform to the drawing, but also the maximum stress did not meet the requirements. The retrospective investigation found that there was a problem with the materials provided by the original material manufacturer, and I don't know whether the process parameters were modified or what the reason was, and all the products in this batch were not compliant.
Whether it is a motorcycle engine or a car engine, it is actually the same as the automobile industry, which is built on various modern basic industries such as electric power, steel, petroleum, chemical industry, machinery, electronics, etc., without the modernization of these basic industrial systems, the development of a modern automobile industry is a source of water and no wood.
A motorcycle engine is composed of hundreds of parts, if the engine image is compared to the integer of 100, then these bases are 1, and only the sum of these 1s can have a complete 100. And many of China's 100 are backward and developed countries.
Taking basic materials as an example, such as steel, a car needs 80% of its own weight, and the different parts used have different requirements for the thickness, strength and material of the steel. This requires a corresponding production and R&D system to meet the requirements of the continuous updating of materials for the development of automobiles.
Due to the backwardness of the basic materials industry, a considerable part of the special steel cannot be produced by itself. For example, the double-sided galvanized sheet required for stamping the car body cannot meet the requirements for the ductility of the steel plate, the thickness of the galvanized layer, the width of the steel plate and the corrosion resistance in a certain environment.
In the 80s, the production technology and production equipment of our iron and steel industry were backward, and we could not roll such a high condition of thin plates, so we had to import them for a long time. After that, Wuhan Iron and Steel and Baosteel spent a lot of effort and foreign exchange to import advanced rolling equipment to solve some of the problems.
In fact, Baosteel has only just started production......
In October '77, Mr. Ye, who had returned from RB's visit, went to Zhongnanhai to report to the central government what he had seen and felt during his visit to Japan, saying: "We haven't seen RB's canned beer and beverage bottles, and we won't use them. ”
The group was shocked that the RB people were able to roll steel as thin as paper and print colorful patterns. RB people opened the can with a pull of their fingers, so it was called a can, while the Chinese tin can is welded, and it is only possible to pry it open with a special awl.
On another occasion, the Japanese side arranged for the Chinese side to visit the Yawata Factory, and the personnel of the Chinese institutions in Japan were ordered to accompany them, and the personnel of the Chinese institutions in Japan, representing the image of the country, must take a Chinese car in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the national flag must be hoisted in front of the car.
The convoy drove relatively fast on the highway, and the RB car drove in front, and the Chinese car could not keep up, so the RB car had to stop and go. Later, the Chinese driver had to take the risk of accelerating, and this time the Chinese car couldn't stand it, and the car broke down and couldn't start.
In the end, the Chinese personnel had to sit in the RB car, and the Chinese car was towed away by the Japanese wrecker. The car used by the embassy is the best car made in China, and the panel is made of hot-rolled steel plate, which is thick and heavy and rusty, and the finish is not good after painting, while RB uses cold-rolled plate, pickling, galvanizing, electric baking paint, light and translucent.
This series of reasons has strengthened Baosteel's determination.
Yang Quan brought back dozens of various car books and magazines from Xiangjiang from Yuecheng, and Playboy forgot to buy two of the bestsellers to treasure them. As soon as they got off the plane in Jinling, they rushed to the research team, and the books and luggage were placed outside the newly renovated office for people to borrow at any time.
After tidying up his outfit and hearing that Yuan Qingli was on the experimental track, Yang Quan walked outside unhurriedly.
The scale of bench testing has been reduced, and now the entire research group has adjusted more of its focus to vehicle testing, and today the test is actually used to evaluate the engine. There are a total of three engineering prototypes, which are said to be engineering samples, but in fact, they are all cars purchased on the market to remove the engine and reload the appearance of the Liberty Man. Counting the Honda CG125 smuggled from RB, a total of four motorcycles are waiting to be tested by evaluators. The Liberty Man is a reverse Honda engine, and it must be pulled over for an evaluation, and the gap is believed to be there, but where the gap is, it must be done in the heart.
When Yang arrived at the test track, the evaluators had already checked the status of the vehicle, started and turned off the engine, and constantly felt the noise and shaking of idling.
"Mr. Yang" "Mr. Yang"......
Seeing Yang Quan appear at the test site, the staff greeted him one after another, and Yuan Qingli turned around and saw Yang Quan turning his head and explaining a few words to the assistant next to him and handing him the notebook in his hand.
"Coming back?"
"Well, it's back. Any news lately?"
"There is good news and bad news, which one should you listen to first?"
"Bad news, let me be bitter and then sweet," Yang Quan said as he looked at the slow motorcycle.
"The engine production line has been rearranged and adjusted, and the first draft of the plant design has come out, waiting for your meeting to discuss. That's the bad news. Yuan Qingli pretended to be concealed and said.
"I know, it's time to start spending money, so that's bad news, right? As soon as Yang Quanquan thought about it, he knew what this was and why it was called bad news. "The good news?"
"The good news is that we have recruited a like-minded friend, and an old friend with some relevant experience, and you may not know that my country has studied rotary engines, and this one has been involved. ”
"Rotary engine?" Yang Quan exclaimed in surprise, staring at Yuan Qingli with glowing eyes, he had heard of the domestic rotary engine, but it was limited to the gossip on the Internet. Now that I know that someone around me has appeared and participated in this event, I am suddenly full of empathy for the sense of historical participation.