Engine design at accessories? kaya na ba?

[ehnriko]

I second that... Money indeed makes the world go round.

Without money... puro drawing lang tayo.

It is also useless to make designs that is not required by the funding institutions or personalities.

Reality check: Those who have the money - will make their own design. Kahit pangit ito sa paningin ng marami - the moment it can see the light of day... Marketing Hype can do its' magic and make the item earn pogi points... magaling naman ang pinoy mag sensationalize.

Moreover - wala namang ka kompetisyon na concrete eh... so he who can concretize his ideas - whether ugly or not - will win.

I once thought I could finance my own ideas once by selling my old car collections... but I sold them too low to be able to fund the hobby.

The next time I can get my hands on some cash again - small or big... I should just decide to spend on the hobby - right away... see what happens.

Ikanga ni Villar... Sipag at Tiyaga lang yan... at mayaman na asawa.

What we really need is Manny... este Money.

[Gerbo]

We really do have a forum in tsikot. Informative, always. Boring, never.

[ghosthunter]

[marg]

Reality check: Those who have the money - will make their own design. Kahit pangit ito sa paningin ng marami - the moment it can see the light of day... Marketing Hype can do its' magic and make the item earn pogi points... magaling naman ang pinoy mag sensationalize.

That is how many Filipino upstarts think.... until they fail.


The Pinoy-made Car that crashed and burned even before it can take off. Same with the Parejo before it.

Marketing Hype can only get you so far. In the end, if you make Crappy and Ugly products, the market will abandon you like the plague.

[ehnriko]

Marketing Hype can only get you so far. In the end, if you make Crappy and Ugly products, the market will abandon you like the plague.

In the outside world where Car Design is more evolved... their trade thrives in keeping secrets.

In the Philippines - we cannot thrive if we are divided.

If we keep secrets among ourselves... we will not be able to accomplish anything in the global game that we did not create.

We can only win the game they created with their rules if we see ourselves as one.

With the above light, Romski - no offense meant, this is just a creative criticism. You kept your project under wraps intending you can make a surprise for the market not only as a possible solution to solve the dying Pinoy Automotive Industry and saving the 50,000 jobs under this field.

You had access to the best talents available for free - you should've used it.

If you can see Lio's renderings right now - you will be amazed and he's not even full time on this, lalo na siguro kung magiging career niya ito.

Another genius in rendering is Sixto Del Rosario - but his full time job as a 3d animator in a big media company prevents him also to land a career in automotive design.

Experience plus know how can get you somewhere... but IMAGINATION plus Talent can bring you EVERYWHERE.

There should not be any competition here. We need to work on helping each other as ONE COUNTRY. Divided we are simply FOOLS!

Very rare will you find a guy in an automotive store whom you can ask good opinions when you buy some parts. For example, if you buy a water pump for your say - project vehicle.

All of them will ask you a part code or a vehicle model and year. You can't give them this but you can tell them your requirement... say I need a pump that will give out 5 GPM and about 10 PSI boost - to be used under 150 deg. Centigrate condition. I dont give a **** about what car engine model this will come from - but it should meet this requirement or somehow close to it.

Then immediately - they will say, Hay sorry sir - di po namin alam kung anong binibili niyo. Kelangan po talaga may part number.

If you get this all the time, then one is forced to go into the surplusan and bring his Caliper to measure and scout for parts. I doubt is these surplasan will allow one to do this. You already see the level of difficulty for one to build something out of over the counter materials in this country.

Based on the above, Clearly we can see that Pinoys are not thinking above the programmed level wherein they are bounded to... this is planned and systematically ingrained into our minds.

We dont care about specifications, dimensions or applications... We are bonded with Part codes and numbers. Keeping us under the control of THEM.

If we only know that most car companies use PLATFORM SHARING... then we can really save a lot in our maintenance costs.

We can use the same knowledge in what we aim to do.

For example, engine design. We can easily build a retrofit kit to dress up say a VVTI engine. what are the parts that can be made of plastic, polyacetals, HDPE's, Fiberglass, aluminum or Kirksites.

We can take the easiest part to redesign, build our mold or dye... make some prototypes, try the fit, put our own logo or signature... modify the design to accomodate provisions for cooling, mounting fasteners for ignition cables, replace with fancy looking allen bolts... change the hue and tone of the anodized look... etc. Then submit it to Car Makers and make letter of intent to supply... provided there is enough raw materials locally and if the cost to produce will be competitive. If they dont buy it, then target the local tuners - post it in Magazines, join car shows promote it.

These are just ideas... I wont go into details... but I hope you can see the forest now and not the trees.

Bottomline, SALES...

The most successful designs that raked billions... will bring SALES. The Business Engineers can always sell anything - but the degree of success will always boil down - IF THE PRODUCT CAN SELL ITSELF after the sale.

Selling people with products that have very small density of thought is like ripping people off with their money.

Products should have MORE DENSITY OF THOUGHT in it.

The costly part will only be the design process... but the more expensive the design... the CHEAPER the product can become. THE EASIER FOR IT to be sold.

Example... VW Beetles & NOKIA Cellfones

I am merely nobody... not even an authority on these things... I am only stating things according to what I HAVE OBSERVED.

[TambayBlues]

Maybe the government should invite or even support this inventor under the balik-scientist program. He was born in Hawaii but grew up in the Philippines. If I'm not mistaken his lineage is Filipino or partly Filipino based on his last name. Even the Koreans and Japanese invite a lot of foreign engineers and scientists to teach in their research institutions in order to help close the gap with their western counterparts in developing the next generation of products for their manufacturing industry. The guy apparently has more than a hundred inventions to his name. In case you guys are interested here's the link to his story with some videos of the mighty aka "MYT" engine;

http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?p=531

[niky]

That's really an interesting one. Remeber when it first came out. The two big questions are:

1. The durability of the reciprocating assembly that manages the energy transfer between the two firing banks of pistons. Each of these may see less speeds than the reciproacting assembly on a normal piston engine, but if the power is even a fraction of what they hope it will be, then the torque on them will be enormous.

2. Intake/exhaust timing and emissions. Since his intake and exhaust ports are built into the head, there is the question of how he can vary the timing of the combustion event in order to achieve emissions compliance. This isn't unsolvable, I guess, if Mazda does it with the Renesis (whose ports are also valveless and built into the head)... but the Mazda rotary is a lot less complicated.

I wonder if they can actually make it work. It's a splendid idea.

[jpdm]

I hope in the very near future, Pinoys can build small engines for small locally assembled utility vehicles like tricycles and hopefully four wheeler motorcycles.

A small kei like utility car also can be powered by a small engine.

A

small engine made in Hongkong:



Brief Description:

400cc, 4 stroke, triple cylinder high torque engine suitable for motorcycle, ATV, utility vehicles or three wheelers.
PTS Motors ltd [ Hong Kong ]

[Vahltomotive]

ako nag de design na ng engine parts

[roberto_minosa]

Yung barkada ko nagfabricate ng intake spacer para sa Toyota 3S-GE. Madali lang gawin. Maganda rin ang gains. Siguro kaya na nga natin gumawa ng mga simple bolt-on parts.