Chapter 1008 The real purpose

He took over the conversation: "Yes, yes, seeing is believing. Let's just go and take a look at the machines that are being tested, and move the meeting place over there, so we can have an on-site office!"

The comrades of the Third Factory readily agreed to this request. If you are not afraid of noise, then what should we be afraid of?

A few minutes later, a group of comrades stood in the mechanical workshop of the Third Factory, looking at several rumbling test machines with shining eyes.

"It really works, it really works!" If the people in the 17th Ministry of Machine Building were still not very clear about what all this meant, then the Director of the Science and Technology Department of the 13th Ministry of Machine Building, who had already "seen it is believing" and had put aside all his worries, could not help but get excited.

Mercedes-Benz these days really puts technology first, and the power of their luxury cars is absolutely advanced, unlike the rather hard-to-describe appearance of their cars decades later.

Having an engine with the same technical level as their top-of-the-line luxury cars means there's a lot more we can do.

For example, this engine is absolutely the best among the countries of the Economic Cooperation Council. After all, the Russians' own car engines can only rank last.

I heard that the Ministry of Foreign Trade is now doing prosperous business with the Russians and the countries under the Economic Assistance Council. It seems that our Thirteenth Ministry of Machine Building can also get its own stage in it!

This was actually what Gao Zhendong was thinking. The Russians' cars have been rotten for decades. Just look at what happened to Xunzong, who later loved racing. If our comrades can do a good job based on this engine, they will definitely achieve great things.

He looked at the two rumbling engines. The deafening sound did not sound noisy to his ears at all. Instead, it sounded like the most beautiful sound of nature, so pleasant to the ears.

"Smooth, too smooth..." The engine that looked like it was shaking badly in Gao Zhendong's eyes was actually extremely smooth in his eyes. Gao Zhendong felt embarrassed to say this.

Looking at the test duration on the display screen next to him, the director of the Science and Technology Department of the 13th Ministry of Machine Building's eyes were full of joy. Not to mention the greatly improved parameters compared to domestic engines, the continuous running time alone was already a huge leap.

"130 hours! That's long! Really long!"

Gao Zhendong knew this. He had heard from his elders that in the past, every driver of the Jiefang truck was a mechanic. If the truck broke down on the road, they would drag out a toolbox and spend a few hours or even a day to fix it and continue on the road.

Of course, this does not include serious failures.

130 hours, almost as long as the overhaul time of the Russian R11 turbojet engine.

Everyone stopped here and watched with interest the comrades who were conducting the alternating load test.

Unlike the continuous operation at rated power, the alternating load test requires the load to be adjusted during the test. This engine is not yet in formal production, and before Gao Zhendong, no one had considered doing this, so there was no automated alternating load test equipment.

The comrades here are manually controlling the engine load in accordance with Gao Zhendong's requirements.

"The comrades here have been working in three shifts for many consecutive days. Their job is to adjust the load in a timely manner." A comrade from the Mechanical Department introduced to the leaders.

"Well, it seems that your reliability test is very rigorous." The chief engineer of the ministry was very satisfied with this. If you were to say where the high-tech flavor is strongest in the 17th Ministry of Machine Building, it would undoubtedly be Gao Zhendong's place. It's not just the technology, but also their research system and process, as well as the specific implementation.

"These are all the plans set for us by Chief Engineer Gao. We are just executing them."

"Can you show us your test plan?" asked the Director of the Science and Technology Department of the 13th Ministry of Machine Building.

After he took the test plan, he looked at it for a few seconds and then looked up at Gao Zhendong: "Chief Engineer Gao, are you going to test these two engines until they are scrapped?"

"Yes, this is not a quality inspection after production, but a test during the research process. We still want to have more comprehensive data, not only for this batch, but also for the second batch of engines. We will do the same after they are produced, including cold and hot shock tests. If there are at least three batches of test data to support it, it means that the engine is really well developed." Gao Zhendong gave a comprehensive introduction to his test plan.

"Can I take this plan back with me? I see that the test items here are all for automobile engines, and they are very meaningful for the reliability tests of our other engines." The comrades from the Thirteenth Ministry of Machine Building were knowledgeable. This was originally extracted from the durability and reliability test standards for automobile engines decades later.

"No problem, I'll send you an email later." Gao Zhendong said with a smile. He hadn't noticed that this thing could also be promoted.

The comrades watched the engines roar for half an hour at the test site. Gao Zhendong said, "Let's go back to the meeting place. The noise here is too loud and it's not convenient to communicate."

Probably because he felt that his presence would affect the work of the comrades here, the chief engineer nodded and said, "Let's go back to the venue."

As soon as he sat down at the meeting place, the comrades from the 13th Ministry of Machine Building couldn't wait to ask Gao Zhendong.

"Comrade Zhendong, where do you plan to use this engine?" Gao Zhendong looked at him in surprise. "It's your business to decide where to use it. I am responsible for making it. How to use it and how to modify it is up to your company to decide."

The chief engineer of the department burst out laughing, and Gao Zhendong's spirit of killing without caring about burying the person came out again.

"You mean you're going to transfer this technology to us?" Comrades Eleven and Thirteen were all stunned. Such a big pie is just going to fall right on their heads?

The chief engineer of the 17th Ministry of Machinery smiled and said, "That's right. Our Comrade Zhendong is quite busy. For work like this, he always sows the seeds and transfers the technology to units where it can play a greater role. He has many similar projects here and in many ministries and commissions."

If someone else mentioned this, the 11th and 13th ministries might think it was a joke, how could you decide such a big thing? But this was the chief engineer of the ministry, and his words were final.

The two ministries were overjoyed: "Thank you very much to the 17th Ministry of Machinery and Chief Engineer Gao. We will definitely make good use of this technology to benefit the people."

Gao Zhendong then coughed lightly and said, "However, I do have some suggestions on the subsequent use and improvement of this technology. They are just personal suggestions."

"You say, you say." The director of the Science and Technology Department even used honorifics when talking to this comrade of the same level as himself, mainly because the other person handled the matter in a selfless manner.

Not only him, but all the 17th Ministry of Machine Building are like this, dedicated to the public.

Seventeenth Ministry of Machine Building: Not really, mainly because I’m used to it.

"First of all, we need to improve the engine. In the design of this engine, I have tried my best to adopt a modular structure. That is to say, except for accessories such as the timing system, the basic structure of the engine - the core of the engine - the cylinder is divided into single-cylinder units." Gao Zhendong said with a smile.

As the director of the Science and Technology Department of the 13th Ministry of Machine Building, the other party immediately understood what he meant.

"You mean, it's easy to add or remove cylinders from this engine?"

"Yes, I suggest that in the follow-up work, the ignition angle of this engine can be changed, reducing one cylinder to become a 1.5 three-cylinder, or adding two cylinders to become a 3.0 six-cylinder. Of course, the L6 engine is a bit shaky, and the L3 engine is a bit long, which may be their defects."

The transformation of L4 into L3 is something that many joint ventures selling L3 in China have done decades later.

As for the fact that L3 will shake if it is not done well, Gao Zhendong knows it, but this is obviously not the time to consider shaking. Instead, the question is how to make the best use of this engine that has been verified by multiple domestic manufacturers, multiple models, and for many years.

Besides, the shaking of L3 is probably not a big deal for comrades these days.

Sure enough, the deputy leader of the 4th Ministry of Machine Building laughed and said, "No shaking, no shaking, no long, no long." Looking at the operating status of L3, how much can L shake?

As long as this can be achieved, it means that our automobile industry has a full set of advanced engines from 1.5 to 3.0, which is enough to cope with all possibilities in small cars.

The Mercedes-Benz 220S uses a 2.2-liter engine.

The director of the Science and Technology Department of the 13th Ministry of Machine Building also nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, that's right, it won't shake much. The length is just right, at most the front of the car can be made longer. I heard that the high-end cars of the Citigroups all have long heads and tails, and look like boats." The aesthetic taste of Citigroups in cars is actually a bit hard to describe these days.

Since you don't care, then I care even less.

Gao Zhendong said: "As for the use, I actually have two ideas: domestic sales and foreign trade."

The director of the Science and Technology Department slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, you and I are thinking the same thing! This thing is like a big shot in the Economic Assistance Association countries. You know, this kind of thing from the big brother in the north is actually quite common. I think it has a chance."

Gao Zhendong nodded: "Yes, that's what I think. Moreover, if the automobile industry can be developed, it can absorb a large number of idle people. This is an extremely long industrial chain that requires a large number of working people to participate."

This is his real purpose in developing this automobile engine, which does not seem to be a cliff-like lead and is a bit of a waste of opportunity - to absorb a lot of the working population.

In this regard, no matter how many new technologies are, they cannot compare to this thing. Moreover, this was before the oil crisis, when automobiles had a period of great development. Even the oil crisis was not a big problem for the economic assistance countries led by the Russians. On the contrary, the Russians made a lot of money from it. Otherwise, Xun Duoduo would not have been able to provide hundreds of billions in subsidies.

As soon as he said this, comrades at the director level and above were shocked.

The chief engineer of the 17th Ministry of Machine Building was even more pleased. Comrade Zhendong really had a long-term vision and could see things that ordinary technicians could not see.

(End of this chapter)