Chapter 337 Robbing (Part 1)
"How did this happen?" Hines didn't embarrass his friend, and drove directly to the repair shop where Guo Tailai built the engine yesterday, and with the help of his friends in the repair shop, he dismantled the engine.
The friend from Porsche checked the engine parts carefully. Except that the processing accuracy has been significantly improved by a large level, nothing about the engine has changed. Is it just that the performance of the engine can be improved so much?
Hines said that according to his feeling, the performance of this engine has increased by at least 3%. Porsche friends believe in Heins' driving skills, but Porsche drivers are no worse than Heins! Even if the two are at the same level, the five-second improvement is probably just a few percent of the performance improvement.
"Put it up and have a try." The Porsche friend didn't say anything more, just reinstalled the engine with the friend in the repair shop.
However, after everything was installed and Heins started the car again, Heins frowned as soon as the ignition was turned on. Not only Hines frowned, but also his friends in the repair shop and the one from Porsche all frowned.
The sound is wrong. It is no longer the low and steady engine sound before, but replaced by a sound that is slightly lower than the original but much higher than before. Even without driving the car, Hines knew that the performance of the engine must have declined slightly.
The friend in the repair shop is also an extremely experienced modification expert, but he has never had such an embarrassing moment. When they dismantled the original engine and reassembled it, the performance was actually lower than before!
You know, his tuning shop has a very good business, many people come here especially, even a professional driver like Hines is a friend, and the level of tuning is quite high. Usually the engines he assembles are better than those assembled by the original factory, otherwise it would be impossible to gain a foothold in the Nürburgring and create a great reputation. But now, it's too embarrassing.
It's not just the friends in the repair shop who are embarrassed, but also the friend from Porsche. The two of them teamed up to assemble an engine with even lower performance. What does this mean? It shows that their assembly techniques are not at the same level as the previous assemblers.
Where is the difference between a master and a low hand? Is it just whether it can be installed properly? The difference lies in certain details. Perhaps an insignificant place deviates by one micron, and after a few levels of magnification, the difference will eventually be a few millimeters. Among the masters, the difference is only a few millimeters.
With such a strong contrast, the friend from Porsche also understood why Hines can improve the performance by five seconds with the same engine design, because of the machining accuracy and assembly skills of the manufacturer and assembler.
"Can I tell the company what happened today?" Porsche's friend asked Hines for advice, and Hines had no objection to this at all, and he could do it at any time.
However, Hines is not the kind of simple-minded guy who only knows about drag racing and doesn't care about anything else. Since Guo Tailai only relied on processing and assembly without changing the design at all, he increased the lap time of the Porsche 993 turbo by five seconds. What happens if the engine is replaced with an F1 engine?
A lap of New North is more than 22 kilometers, and a lap of F1 is about 5 kilometers. Even if F1 can be faster by one second per lap according to the ratio, after 60 laps, one minute can be won. A one-minute advantage can completely influence the result in an F1 race!
What's more, it is not so simple to calculate in F1. In the F1 race, even a 1% increase in engine power may greatly affect the final result. As the team's reserve driver, Hines knew exactly what those crazy engineers were doing in order to squeeze every ounce of power out of the engine.
If the engine of the F1 car was built and assembled by Guo Tailai himself, what might be the result? Hines did not dare to imagine, but this did not prevent him from telling the manager and technical director of the team about this possibility. Of course, he also truthfully reported what happened in the past few days. There is one more record on the track, and it seems that there is a little bit more chance to make myself a higher-ranked reserve driver.
"Are you sure?" The team manager didn't believe what Hines meant, but it's better to confirm this kind of news more. It is a trivial matter for a new car to run a lap time of less than 7 minutes and 30 seconds, but if the engine performance of the manufactured assembly is 3% higher without any design changes, it will be a major matter.
McLaren doesn't have that much money to develop engines, and it only spends more than 10 million U.S. dollars a year to purchase engines. Even if the performance of the purchased engine or the purchased design can be increased by a percentage point out of thin air, such a master is worth the cost to win them over!
While Hines was reporting to the team manager, his Porsche friend also reported to his superior what happened on his vacation today, and then passed it to higher levels. After receiving the news, the senior management seemed to be very interested, and immediately informed him to end his vacation and ask him to represent Porsche and get in touch with that Mr. Taylor.G.
Porsche is a local brand in Germany. It also had an F1 team a long time ago, but then withdrew. Later, he indirectly participated in F1 as an engine supplier for a large team, and then slowly became an engine supplier for a small team, and it seems that he has lost interest in F1.
This is normal. It is a matter of manufacturer strategy. The new technologies obtained in F1 are not as good as those obtained in GT races, and they are better applied to Porsche's civilian cars, especially now that Porsche is moving away from small workshop production and modernizing assembly. Compared with Ferrari, which is only obsessed with the supercar series, its development direction is different.
But Porsche prefers the endurance races of Le Mans and New North. In the Le Mans LMP1 race, engineers have more freedom to develop racing technology. You can choose any engine, you can choose any form of hybrid system, you can choose a large engine or a small engine, a large battery or a small battery. Whereas in F1 everything is restricted and everybody has the same car configuration.
Guo Tailai's processing and assembly technology has definitely been valued, and his modification technology has also surprised Porsche. Originally, they had already received the news that they were discussing how to contact Guo Tailai. Now that such good news came, they would send someone to contact Guo Tailai immediately without further delay.
Hisashi Matsuyama is still experiencing the unprecedented rotor supercar experience in the car, and he is still thinking about how to find ways to suppress a Chinese private person and get the design of this new model. As a result, when he returned to the parking lot, he saw Guo Tailai chatting with two foreigners with the help of an interpreter.
After leaning over to listen, Matsuyama Hisashi's expression changed within a few minutes. People from Porsche and McLaren are all making appointments with Guo Tailai? Things are getting bigger!