The 2,4-liter four-cylinder became the first modern engine with five pots, three liters and 80 HP. What?! Attach a cylinder to the 240 D four-cylinder? The rest are known. Nothing! 'Hang on to the cylinder, I'll build it for you,' he is said to have said. The restlessly helpless Daimler men were now expecting an equally desperate engineer, Piëch. Too complicated, too expensive, not yet suitable for series production. The Mercedes 240 D ripped with his then 65 PS even with full pedal only very, very small stones from the asphalt.Īccording to legend, the Austrian Piëch said: 'Turn it on Turbo, I just reinvented it in the Porsche'. At Daimler, they had another problem: too little power. Pretty soon, Daimler Benz people stood on Piëch's mat. So the gifted technician and Porsche 917 inventor Ferdinand Piëch opened an engineering office in Stuttgart. The families Porsche and Piëch had banned all descendants of the company founder from Porsche to preserve peace between the families. At that time, Porsche grandson Ferdinand Piëch had a problem, not a job anymore. Gas take away or new Volvos act like cold withdrawal.

you know: 1.900 / min! Permanent Bollerboller. One thing is clear: an Audi Urquattro or a Volvo last longer than the average marriage with an expiration date of 12,5 years.įetishists put their Volvo on the test bench, whose brake is adjusted so. But the normal person experiences weightlessness + butterflies in the stomach and in the vicinity of the earth only during parabolic flights (attention: 'Kotzbomber') or just in love. I admit there are always only short moments of the special five-tone synphony. LOOKING FOR! Look for a hill or even a tunnel with a slight incline (Lake Garda or Maritime Alps maybe, or the Hamburg Bergstrasse :-). Starting in a large corridor on a flat slopeīuy any, dying five-cylinder Volvo with automatic - a real D5 or T5 - window down, engage 3rd gear of the automatic manually. If the experimental setup is respected, then bollert each five-cylinder just as magical (pardon!) as an Ami-V8 with 90-degree crank.ģ. Plus / minus 50 turns, that's a gut decision.

Petrol or oil burner, dome or converter? No matter! Then: start up and the machine under load and exactly (!) keep on 1.900 tours.

Take any five-cylinder, firmly attached to a vehicle.

Self-experiment 'Project Bollern at 1.900':

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