Chapter 391: Shelby Cobra's Engine

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High-power engines have always been a problem for the automobile manufacturing industry.

Not to mention the V8 engine, before Jin Xiaoqiang crossed and was reborn, the Celestial Empire could not even manufacture the V6 engine.

And there are several problems that have been plaguing the development of high-power engines in the Celestial Empire.

First of all, as far as the current mainstream development trend of future automobiles is concerned, inline 4-cylinder engines with small displacement, or even engines with fewer cylinders, have become the mainstream.

High-power engines such as V6 or V8 are too fuel-intensive, and the price is not affordable for ordinary consumers, so many automobile manufacturers in the Celestial Empire do not have much interest in the research and development of such engines.

Second, because of the high-power V6 or V8 engine, if you really need to grit your teeth and engage in research and development, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources, as well as funds and resources.

For example, the volume of a large-displacement V6 or V8 engine is larger than that of an in-line 4-cylinder, but it should not be too large, because it has to be stuffed into the nose cover of the car, so the volume of this engine must be controlled.

Therefore, when designing this kind of engine, it is necessary to redesign the bore and length of this engine, which has to be demonstrated countless times of experiments, and the money and time required for these alone are converted into hundreds of millions of funds.

And how to lay out these cylinders, how to control the noise of such an engine, and resonance are all difficult problems, if these problems can not be solved, I am afraid that even if your engine is manufactured. Others don't want to buy it.

I believe that no one wants to pay the price of a luxury car to buy a car with similar noise and vibration as a tractor.

Therefore, in terms of how to balance the engine, it also needs to spend a lot of money and manpower and material resources.

For these two reasons, if you really research and develop, I'm afraid you won't be able to get the technology of a large-displacement engine without spending three or five years and billions of dollars.

And even if such an engine is developed, I am afraid that not many people in China are willing to buy a model equipped with such an engine, so many domestic automobile manufacturing enterprises. There is simply no concept to develop such an engine.

The reason why Jin Xiaoqiang chose to develop such an engine also has his own considerations, and the most high-end luxury cars that are popular on the market are generally known for their strong performance.

Like Porsche, Ferrari. Or Lamborghini, such sports cars, as well as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi's top luxury cars, are equipped with high-power eight-cylinder engines, and American luxury cars, let alone a problem. Like those high-end Lincoln, Cadillac's top-of-the-line luxury cars, which ones don't have a V8 engine as the minimum configuration?

Therefore, if Huayang Power wants to make a fuss about luxury high-end cars, it must be prepared to gnaw hard bones.

And long before choosing to cooperate with the military, Jin Xiaoqiang also had such considerations, that is, the models needed by the military. It generally doesn't care about the configuration of the number of engine cylinders and fuel consumption, especially for some models with special needs.

For example, medium-sized special equipment carriers, models specializing in transporting rockets and missiles, such models, but they only need high-horsepower models without considering fuel consumption at all.

So at that time. Jin Xiaoqiang came up with the idea of developing a high-power engine.

AND LATER HE CAME UP WITH THE V6 ECOBOOST ENGINE, ALTHOUGH THIS ENGINE IS BASICALLY COMPARABLE TO THE ORDINARY V8 ENGINE WITHIN 5 LITERS IN PEAK POWER, BUT THIS IS JUST PEAK POWER, THAT IS, IT CAN OUTPUT THAT PEAK POWER WHEN IT REACHES A CERTAIN SPEED. …,

But in terms of linear output. It is definitely inferior to the orthodox high-power V8 engine, so from that time on, Jin Xiaoqiang has made up his mind to make a high-power V8 engine.

Liu Hong, who has participated in national projects and engaged in the research and development of high-power engines, Mr. Liu and Jin Xiaoqiang can be said to hit it off in terms of design concepts.

Therefore, from the time of the development of the ECOBOOST engine, Jin Xiaoqiang has been secretly engaged in the research and development of this high-power V8 engine with Master Liu.

Later, Liu Hong and Liu Changshan went to the branch outside the factory to specialize in the research and development of the military vehicle armor, and Jin Xiaoqiang also entrusted the research and development of such a high-power engine to Liu Hong and Liu Changshan.

ON THE ONE HAND, HE FAMILIARIZED THE TWO OF THEM WITH HIS COPY OF FORD'S ECOBOOST V6 ENGINE, AFTER ALL, THIS ENGINE IS A V6 ENGINE, WHICH IS ALSO AN ENTRY-LEVEL HIGH-POWER ENGINE.

And he himself began to screen out a very suitable V8 high-power engine from his memories to later generations early on.

If you don't use such resources, you're really sorry for yourself, and if you go through the formal process, you need dozens of engineers to cooperate, spend three or five years, and billions of dollars to develop the V8 engine, such a consumption, even if he Jin Xiaoqiang has money, he can't afford to waste it.

You must know that the reason why the current Huayang Power can rise so fast and make such a big profit is of course related to the fact that a large number of her technologies are formed in later generations.

Otherwise, how can he establish his status as the world's most popular top car designer? And the name of a genius in car design?

So he chose a classic V8 engine from the memories of later generations to copy, and this engine is also derived from Ford.

And it's derived from the 5.4-liter V8 engine of Ford's famous Shelby Cobra GT500!

When it comes to Ford's muscle cars, it is easy for everyone to think of the famous Cobra Mustang in the Ford series, the fierce appearance, coupled with the strong power that can be called savage, and the heroic posture that has galloped countless times in the movie, it is easy to make people feel adrenaline rush and blood boil when they think about it.

The Ford Shellby GT500 Cobra, launched in 2007, is an extension of the Mustang model.

In 2004, Carroll, a legend in the world of motorsport, had driven a Ford Mustang to win the World Championship countless times. Shelby decided to work with the Ford Mustang again.

However, this cooperation is not for him to drive the Ford Mustang to the maternity vacation World Racing Championship, but based on the current situation and his experience, based on the Ford Mustang, he is developing a new generation of Ford muscle cars.

So with the cooperation of Ford's special vehicle team, it took a total of three years for the two sides to finally launch the shocking Ford Shellby GT500 Cobra in 2007.

And the most amazing device on this car is the car's 5.4-liter V8 engine, which can burst out with 550 horsepower and more than 600 torque.

Such data, even after five years, is enough to shock the world.

When Jin Xiaoqiang was in his last life, he also repaired the car for a young man in Beijing who loved to play cars, and he knew that he had such a car, and later he did everything possible to please this son, so that the man let him touch the car with his own hands.

Later, the boy once raced with someone, and finally accidentally crashed the car, and Jin Xiaoqiang was distressed and happy when he learned about it.

I feel sorry for this loser who broke such a good car, and I am happy that he finally has the opportunity to disassemble such a bull pen engine with his own hands. …,

Later, the car had to be replaced because the powertrain was lost too much, but it was Jin Xiaoqiang who dismantled the engine and transmission from the car one by one.

And when the new powertrain was installed, he was also quietly observing on the side, and secretly photographing and learning all the way, coupled with the continuous dismantling of the original abandoned powertrain, this made the powertrain of this car understand.

Such a powerful big guy, plus the explosive force he can provide is not what aluminum alloy steel can withstand, so the mystery of this engine is that Ford uses a cast iron cylinder block, and the internal combustion chamber also adopts a special design, and the piston also uses a unique sodium-filled aluminum alloy cylinder head, and the piston rings and bearings are also made of unique alloy steel to ensure hardness, quality, and life.

If it had been changed to before, Jin Xiaoqiang might have been blinded, but now after integrating and improving the smelting technology of a large number of special steels obtained from Naruto Shinyuki, the problem of such engine materials is no longer a problem for them.

You must know that the national-level research team that Mr. Liu Hong participated in back then was finally stumped on the material of the engine.

So when Master Liu Hong saw the design drawings of the V8 engine brought by Jin Xiaoqiang a year ago, he couldn't help but burst into tears of excitement, and muttered vigorously, if they had the smelting technology of Huayang Power now, they might have overcome such an engine a long time ago.

After having the drawings, Liu Hong and Liu Changshan, the two old men, have been the main task for more than a year, in addition to designing military vehicles in their branch factories, to mainly study such an engine, to understand its various working states, as well as motion parameters.

At that time, because it was a confidential matter, Jin Xiaoqiang repeatedly told Liu Hong not to make a noise, coupled with such a high-power engine, it is difficult to find a market in China, so Jin Xiaoqiang has never publicized this matter. (To be continued.) )