"PS9" (PS9)
05/02/2015 at 14:37 • Filed to: None
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"PS9" (PS9)
05/02/2015 at 14:37 • Filed to: None | 3
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Think a watercooled alternator is nuts? Nah. That’s not nuts.
A watercool alternator nestled deep in the V with it’s own two speed transmission and it’s own fucking radiator? Ok. Now that’s nuts.
Steve in Manhattan
> PS9
05/02/2015 at 14:47 |
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Here’s my question. Does this need to be this way? Can you put in a normal alternator? And just ... why?
Birddog
> PS9
05/02/2015 at 14:49 |
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Engineers need complexity to justify their jobs.
At least they didn’t try giving it Planetary gears.
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> PS9
05/02/2015 at 14:54 |
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Not gonna lie, looks like it says "Hardly Dick"
As in this part does hardly dick.
desertdog5051
> Steve in Manhattan
05/02/2015 at 15:02 |
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My guess is that locating it in the V area was done because of space limitations. Alternators get quite warm when operating and the liquid cooling was necessary because of where it was mounted. Why it has 2 speeds?... I got nothing there.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Steve in Manhattan
05/02/2015 at 15:02 |
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Because stupidity?
I once had a roommate who was in school for mechanical engineering. Sometimes his solutions were... entertaining.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> PS9
05/02/2015 at 19:10 |
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that’s just plain stupidity and typical German over engineering , and the main reason why i will never own a German car.
His Stigness
> Birddog
05/03/2015 at 19:28 |
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Planetary gears would have been too simply.
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His Stigness
> pip bip - choose Corrour
05/03/2015 at 19:29 |
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So having ridiculous engineering skill is stupid?
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> His Stigness
05/04/2015 at 03:40 |
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having the skills is fine , using them in some areas would be fine , but in a car it’s stupid and unnecessary.
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> PS9
05/04/2015 at 12:06 |
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That’s overengineered and bound to break. VW... Keep it simple, stupid.
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PS9
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
05/04/2015 at 12:28 |
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Actually what they need to do is go even farther. Have the Alternator mounted on top of the transmisson powered by a 1:10th scale TDI V10 behind it’s own 1:10th scale six speed automatic. ANd have them both be made of platinum so it costs 10x more to replaces one if it breaks relative to the full scale engine.
Oh, and both the mini engine and trans get their own separate radiators! And oil coolers! And fuel tank and fueling system and fuel gauge and...
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His Stigness
> pip bip - choose Corrour
05/05/2015 at 10:50 |
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The whole point of having engineering skills is to use them to solve problems, and because car manufacturers are in the business to make money, I doubt they do 99% of things for a reason.
While my only guess in this case is they didn’t have the room for the alternator on the front, I suspect there was another issue which was solved by putting the alternator in the V.
Something like this isn't stupid because you don't know why they did it. Something that probably is stupid is tilting a V6 backwards, thus making it impossible to work on, when the Germans keep their engines flat and easy to work on. But maybe the Japanese tilt them back for a very specific reason, I don't know, but the fact that Germans don't gives me pause.