This star likes to die

Chapter 120 Are You Changing Cars Or Building Airplanes? 【Part 3】

Xiao Ning's set of operations is down.

It's nothing more than wanting to do business with Red Bull first and pay money later.

In this way, Hummingbird won't be able to draw the share of Red Bull's sponsorship, and Xiao Ning can wait for the results of the new star list in October to get the bonus before leaving.

This is indeed the best solution if you must leave the hummingbird.

Just as Yitian Zou promised.

On the second day after they confirmed the cooperation, the Austrian Red Bull found an entire professional racing team and flew directly to Jiangcheng from abroad.

9 month 30 day.

In the largest tuning factory in Jiangcheng, a foreign tuning engineer from the Red Bull team was communicating with Xiao Ning in English.

After consultation and analysis between Xiao Ning and the professional team, there are two options for the final challenge of Qiuming Mountain.

The first is a rally car solution using a modified powertrain.

The second option is a complete modification of a suitable civilian vehicle.

As far as the vehicle requirements of this mission are concerned, the option of modifying the top rally car is obviously the best.

However, there is a fatal problem with this scheme.

The corresponding modified parts of engines and gearboxes that meet the requirements are all competition-level. There is no domestic manufacturer of these things in Longguo. If we want to do it now, we must get these things from abroad.

Even though most things are ready-made and ready to ship, there are always some things that need to be customized.

According to the calculations of the Red Bull team, if this plan is chosen, it will take at least five weeks for the cars that meet the requirements to appear in Jiangcheng, and the customs alone will have to delay at least a week.

Such a situation is different from what Zou Yitian, vice president of Red Bull Dragon Country, said about half a month ago.

But after learning about this situation, Xiao Ning didn't intend to blame Zou Yitian in his heart.

On the one hand, although Zou Yitian is the vice president, after all, his understanding of some situations in this position must be different from that of professionals.

On the other hand, in addition to this long-term solution, there is a second solution.

Carry out a full range of modifications directly to civilian vehicles!

In the second option, the time can even be controlled within ten days.

When Red Bull's foreign engineer informed the situation of the second plan, Xiao Ning's eyes lit up.

As if sensing the change in Xiao Ning's eyes, the foreigner engineer couldn't help but add: "Mr. Xiao, with all due respect, as a professional, I don't recommend you to adopt the second option."

"Compared to the mature rally car modification system, the disadvantage of this solution is that the safety is uncontrollable."

"It definitely makes your already risky challenge even more risky."

When Xiao Ning heard these words, he smiled directly at the foreigner: "Mr. John, you are worrying too much."

"If it is on a regular rally track, the safety and reliability of modern top rally cars is undoubtedly very high. Even if the car rolls over at a speed of more than 100 or even [-] kilometers per hour, it can still rely on the top anti-roll cage and safety measures. Survive."

"But at Qiuming Mountain, most of the roads are cliffs."

"If you make a mistake in this area, whether it's hitting a wall or jumping off a cliff, the result of a rally car is actually the same as a modified road car."

"It's dead anyway."

After John heard Xiao Ning say these words in a casual tone, he secretly clicked his tongue.

The tone of this young man's speech is completely disregarding life and death!
Is there nothing in this world worthy of his nostalgia?

Although the first reaction was to think of these things, John could actually understand what Xiao Ning said.

In order to evaluate the details of the vehicle, the Red Bull team had already visited Qiuming Mountain as soon as they arrived in Jiangcheng.

On a pure mountain road like this, no matter how high your safety measures are, if you fall off a cliff unfortunately, there will be no possibility of survival.

After half an hour.

Xiao Ning and the Red Bull team finalized the racing plan.

Directly modify civilian vehicles.

When the Red Bull team started looking for the best option among the many prototypes.

Xiao Ning, who was listening on the sidelines, heard the conversation between the chief engineer John and another engineer, and suddenly came to inspiration.

"Mr. John, according to what you just said, can any car that is light enough and short enough in wheelbase be used as a modification option?"

John nodded: "That's true. After all, the so-called rally cars were actually converted from civilian hatchbacks."

"Now we just need to choose a suitable civilian hatchback."

Xiao Ning followed up and asked: "Mr. John, the hatchback version of the AE86 is also a hatchback, right? If you use this car to modify it, do you think it is feasible?"

John frowned slightly: "AE86?"

"It can be changed. Anyway, this kind of pure violent modification is just a shell, and everything inside has to be replaced."

"However, this is a car from the last century after all. It is definitely not the best choice for modification, or even a relatively poor choice. The only advantage is that the modification cost is not so high."

"However, Mr. Xiao, in the situation that the company told us, the budget for you to complete the extreme challenge is quite sufficient. There is absolutely no need to use this old car."

"You have to know that just because of its aerodynamic appearance, this old car is far behind the current car."

Xiao Ning asked again: "Then if you have to use this car to modify it, the effect of the modification..."

"Assuming that the driving skills have reached the pinnacle, do you think this car can run out of the data of 280 speed and 200 corner speed?"

John thought for a while, and said truthfully: "It is indeed possible."

Xiao Ning directly said: "Then change this!"

For Xiao Ning's decision, the Red Bull team was stunned.

Although, as John said, old cars like the AE86 can indeed be modified to meet the performance requirements, but there are obviously better options, why use this old car to modify?

When John asked the reason, Xiao Ning answered very openly.

"To be honest, I'm still filming a movie recently. According to the requirements of the movie, we need an AE86 with strong modification performance."

"Anyway, we have to modify the car for the extreme challenge. By the way, I modified the AE86. After the modification, I can borrow it to take some movie shots."

"Don't worry, I will explain this matter to Mr. Zou in detail later."

It took John a while to sort out the clues from what Xiao Ning told him.

Ah!
This young man!
In addition to using the car to carry out extreme challenges, he also wants to make a movie with the refitting results of whoring Red Bull for nothing!
"my God."

"Can this also be prostitution?"

In the following period of time, John still put aside that unbelievable time.

According to Xiao Ning's instructions, Huang Mao has already driven the AE86 with "Fujiwara とうふ店 (for my own use)" printed on the side of the car to the refitting factory.

After the car was handed over to the Red Bull team, Huang Mao, who loves modified cars very much, was in high spirits.

"racer!"

"You just said on the phone that you want to change my 86. I really didn't expect the people who changed this car to look so awesome!"

"Who are these people? Where did they come from? Why are they all foreigners?"

Regarding Huang Mao's question, Xiao Ning casually pointed to the uniforms of the Red Bull team: "Didn't you see what clothes they were wearing?"

"Red bored?"

Huang Mao froze for a moment, and then was shocked in his heart.

He passed the audition and had already seen the script of "Initial D".

So he also knows about the plot of the AE86 in "Initial D" being replaced by a racing engine by Takumi's father Bunta.

But it's a movie after all!
What are you doing so seriously?
Just take a picture and deal with it casually!
How did this really change?
Or find someone from Red Bull to change it?
You don't really want to change the racing engine, do you?
With [-] question marks in his heart, after seeking Xiao Ning's consent, he decisively ran to the factory to chat with a member of the Red Bull team who had no work at the moment.

"Hey, bro, I'm Xiao Ning's friend and the owner of this car."

"What modifications are you going to make to this car?"

After Huang Mao explained his intentions, the employee of the Red Bull team introduced him directly.

"Suspension, chassis, shock absorbers, exhaust..."

After hearing this, Huang Mao asked subconsciously: "I don't care about other things, but I have modified the engine of this car before, from the original 130 horsepower to more than 180 horsepower. It is reasonable to say that it is enough for us. The power system Do you want to move too?"

The Red Bull team looked puzzled.

180 horses?

Enough?

Not to mention anything else, the 180-horsepower AE86, even if it goes to the airport to run at a high speed on the straight road, it is impossible to run at 280 kilometers per hour.

How can this work?

Although the employees of the Red Bull team wondered why Huang Mao would say that it was enough, they still answered Huang Mao's question.

"About the powertrain."

"The plan we are working on now is to directly transplant the engine."

Direct porting of the engine?
Is this really going to change the racing engine?
In the folk modification circle in Longguo, it is generally within the procedure to make some changes to the original engine and replace the parts.

It is actually rare in the circle of folk enthusiasts to directly replace the engine.

When he heard that the engine was really going to be changed, Huang Mao's curiosity was completely aroused.

"Sir, which engine are you going to transplant?"

A member of the Red Bull team said truthfully: "The engine compartment of the AE86 is not large. After comprehensive consideration, we decided to choose a solution with smaller quality and volume."

"Considering the modification cost and actual effect, we want to replace it with an LS7 V8 engine with an OHV structure."

LS7 V8 engine, Huang Mao knows it.

This engine has a displacement of 7 liters. It is a large-displacement naturally aspirated engine. To a certain extent, it is an extremely classic engine that was once used by Lighthouse National Automobile Enterprises in various vehicles because it was written by GM. Engines on domestic supercars and muscle cars.

The original maximum horsepower of this engine is 505 horsepower and the maximum torque is 644 Nm.

In addition to the luxurious parameters, the biggest advantage of this engine is that it is light enough!

LS7 is made of all-aluminum material, and adopts OHV layout and smaller cylinder head design, which has made great contributions to weight reduction.

The weight of the engine body is only 170 kg!

Because of its extremely light weight, this engine is often the best modification choice for some drift enthusiasts.

After thinking of everything about LS7, the yellow hair at the moment is undoubtedly dull.

Because if an AE86 is equipped with this eight-cylinder engine...

That speed, that low twist!
Is this still called AE86?

When Huang Mao was completely dumbfounded.

The Red Bull spoke again.

"After all, time is short, and we have no time to adopt a more mature solution, because that will inevitably require ordering from foreign channels."

"So I can only choose LS7 as a compromise."

"However, the original factory horsepower parameter of [-] horses seems exaggerated, but in fact, after our calculations, it is still difficult to meet the needs of Qiu Mingshan."

"so."

"We plan to add a Garrett GTX7R turbo to the LS5008 and replace it with a gearbox that can withstand the modified 1100 Nm torque."

"Thus."

"The final horsepower of this modified AE86 can be pushed to about 1000 horsepower, and the maximum torque reaches 1100 Nm."

"According to current needs."

"Such a powertrain should be more or less adequate."

After Huang Mao heard these words, his whole body was petrified.

Five hundred horses of naturally aspirated eight-cylinder plus a turbo drive hard to push one thousand horses!

This terrifying power is placed in the original AE900 weighing more than 86 kilograms!
"Do you want to add two more wings!"

"You nima are modifying the car!"

"It's still fucking better!"

"Thinking about building an airplane!"

　There should be more, in the middle of the night, still writing.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)