In 1992, a small village owner became the richest man in the village by owning a car.

Chapter 237 Parameters of Gasoline Engines
"It's all because of you." Duan Dahai turned around and glared at the other person. "We agreed to keep that engine, dismantle it, and sell the parts. You talk a good game, but you don't do anything. So, I brought Dawei here. We don't need you anymore. Dismantle it, sell the parts, and Dawei and I will split the profits 50/50."

Hearing this, Yu Dawei smiled helplessly to himself, feeling that Brother Duan could be quite petty at times. If you really wronged him over some small matter, even if he didn't say it, he would definitely remember it clearly. If he didn't have the chance, he would let it go, but if he caught him, he would definitely bring up what he had kept hidden in his heart.

"Hey! No way! I didn't take it apart because it's too cold. Besides, who would I sell the parts to if I took it apart now?" Boss Liang regretted his words as soon as he finished speaking. Brother Dawei runs a repair shop; how could he have trouble selling the parts?
Thinking about it, I realized I'd really made a fool of myself.

Seeing that Boss Liang seemed genuinely convinced by Duan Dahai's words, Yu Dawei quickly comforted and explained, "Don't listen to Brother Duan's nonsense. I just happen to have my eye on this engine and plan to observe its parameters and performance before taking it back to the repair shop to modify the car."

"Hey! Old Duan! I never thought you, a quiet and reserved guy, would make fun of me like this!" Boss Liang took a step forward and casually put his arm around Duan Dahai's neck: "You've gone bad, haven't you?"

"That's because I've been spending too much time with you guys." Duan Dahai's words were clearly loaded with meaning, trying to spread the blame.

"Huh? That has nothing to do with me." Yu Dawei turned his head, his face full of innocence. "I'm so much younger than you two, so innocent, sincere, and kind. I'm too busy learning your good points to be full of bad intentions."

Boss Liang: "..."

Duan Dahai: "..."

You're a scoundrel, full of evil intentions! You may look handsome with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but your heart is black! Tell me, how many people have you sent to jail since we met?
However, this shouldn't be taken lightly, since those who went in, as far as they knew, were definitely not good people.

Especially Deng Zhijun, who I heard is now working as a sewing machine inside.

The group arrived at the scrap metal area in the yard, where there were many scrap iron sheets, rusty exhaust pipes, all kinds of iron wires, fist-sized pieces of iron, and so on.

Following the narrow path less than half a meter wide, Yu Dawei saw an engine covered in rust. The wiring around it was relatively intact, and the entire cylinder block was very compact. This alone caught Yu Dawei's eye.

I hadn't looked at it closely before, but the valve covers, flywheel, and fan blades of this engine were all intact.

There might be problems inside, but at least from the outside, apart from the cylinder being a bit dirty, everything else looks fine.

"How's it going, Dawei? Is the engine still usable? Can you tell what brand it is?" Boss Liang came over and squatted down on the ground like Yu Dawei, staring intently at the engine.

When this engine was sold to the scrap yard, it was in pieces, just like the other parts. It's unclear which repair shop it was dismantled at before it was sold here as scrap.

"I can't tell. Let's look for the parameters on the engine's nameplate." Yu Dawei picked up a tattered rag from the side, first wiping away the layer of snow covering the engine, and then began to wipe away the sludge from various parts of the engine.

In his past life, he rarely repaired family cars. It was only when he was young and couldn't find the right way to repair them that he chose to repair any kind of car.

After getting involved with large dump trucks and other trucks, he began to study hydraulics. Later, he repaired excavators, bulldozers, and other construction machinery. Until he got old, he never touched a car again.

However, the repair industry is a field where you can learn from any other part. As long as you understand the principles between various machines, repairing any car is actually the same.

"Found it." Yu Dawei was lucky; after wiping it for a while, the engine number appeared somewhere on the cylinder block.

“680Q model…” Yu Dawei looked at the model number on the silver nameplate with a hint of confusion in his eyes.

This should be the engine model. He seemed to have heard some old mechanics mention the 680Q engine, but he couldn't quite remember where it was made.

"Did the person who sold this part bring anything else with them, like a car body, a hood, or some kind of headlight?" Yu Dawei turned to look at the two of them, hoping to use some other parts from the car to awaken his lost memories.

“It looks like there’s a front hood.” Duan Dahai stroked his chin with his right hand, gently wiping away the white frost from his stubble. “It’s a very square front hood, with a shield-like symbol on the front.”

Yu Dawei slapped his thigh: "Haidu Sedan. Then it must be it. The overall appearance of that car should be business-oriented, giving people a sense of composure and grandeur. Of course, it has been dismantled into pieces, so you can't see the grandeur anymore. All you can see is that it's stingy."

The two people standing nearby agreed wholeheartedly; when the car was brought over, the various parts and such didn't seem that big.

Anyway, for Duan Dahai, the person who bought these car parts and then resold them to the scrap yard didn't really make much money. "Can this engine be installed in the van you took back?" Duan Dahai squatted down on the other side of Yu Dawei and asked curiously, "After the engine is installed, will the transmission also need to be replaced with one that matches this engine?"

Duan Dahai felt somewhat helpless. Back when the other party was selling scrap metal, there really was a gearbox. However, the gearbox looked even worse than the engine. So Duan Dahai and Boss Liang discussed it and decided to just sell it along with the other scrap metal. And that's how it was sold.

If Yu Dawei really needs a transmission that matches this engine, it will be quite a problem.

"It shouldn't be necessary." Yu Dawei wiped the nameplate with a rag and said casually, "The Haidu sedan's 680Q engine, if I remember correctly, should be a 2.2-liter, four-speed manual, with a maximum power of 66 kilowatts and a top speed of 130 kilometers per hour, but in reality it will be a bit lower, probably around 110 kilometers per hour."

“Perfect timing. The Daihatsu van’s transmission is also a four-speed manual. I’ll check the differential later.” Yu Dawei draped a rag over the engine, stood up and said, “If the differential and transmission are fine, I’ll give it a try. I’ll have to take them apart to check anyway, and we’ll know if they match when the time comes.”

It's a bit of a shame that the original transmission from the engine isn't here. If it were, Yu Dawei could just glance at the specifications and compare them with the specifications of the van's transmission to roughly determine if it would work.

Theoretically speaking, however, there shouldn't be any major problems.

Cars or minivans of that era actually had four-speed transmissions. In the late 1990s, with the improvement of automotive technology, cars gradually transitioned from four-speed to five-speed, and even six-speed automatic transmissions, etc.

The future development path of transmissions is very broad, including MT, AT, DCT, CVT and AMT, etc. Yu Dawei's understanding of automobiles in his previous life was not as extensive as that of engineering machinery, and he simply ignored all kinds of T.

The old master's stubbornness is something I don't know, and you don't need to know me. Even if he lives his whole life, he still can't distinguish the relationships between various Ts.

Yu Dawei is actually reluctant to learn about cars in his lifetime and to repair them. He thinks that maintaining a car is much more comfortable than repairing it.

Secondly, although automobiles and construction machinery both belong to the machinery category, there are many differences when they are further subdivided.

Yu Dawei doesn't want to waste time on diversification and meaninglessness. The automotive industry will be very competitive in the future, just like the mobile phones that are about to emerge. From the early mobile phones to the flip phones, to the smartphones, there will be continuous updates and iterations.

The automotive industry was also heavily involved. Yu Dawei even clearly remembers that several mobile phone manufacturers eventually joined the car manufacturing industry, and the prices were ridiculously high. It just didn't seem reliable at all.

Human energy is limited, and Yu Dawei must make the most of his limited energy to succeed in the field of engineering machinery.

As for all sorts of Ts and such, let them be, let them do whatever they want.

Making money through car ownership is the true path to a successful life.

"Okay, let's go inside and warm up first. Once we're warm enough, we'll take this engine to my place and compare it with the transmission in the van." Yu Dawei glanced back at the engine. Despite the rust in various places, those were marks from rain. If we used an angle grinder to polish it and fix it properly, it wouldn't be entirely useless.

The Haidu sedan boasts impressive performance, but its greatest strength lies in its comfort.

It's a pity the other party had the car completely dismantled; if I had it in my hands, I might have been able to modify it very well.

The three of them went into the house, and Duan Dahai stuffed two more pieces of fine coal into the stove. Soon after, the stove burst into flames with a "whoosh".

Without any hesitation, Boss Liang took off his shoes from the floor and climbed onto the kang (heated brick bed). In the morning, no one was watching the fire in the stove, and now the temperature was really a bit cold. In addition, he had been outside freezing for so long, and he had been wanting to go to the kang to warm up his thighs with the quilt.

"Old Liang, are you so susceptible to the cold? That shouldn't be the case. Didn't you take some medicine?" As soon as Duan Dahai entered the inner room, he saw Boss Liang huddled on the kang (a heated brick bed), reaching out to pick at the herbal packets on the kang.

"Even the best body can't withstand temperatures of minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius. If you're so tough, then don't get on the kang (heated brick bed)." Boss Liang divided the herbal medicine packets in front of him into three portions. After dividing them, he thought for a moment and then took two packets from the two portions next to him and put them into his own large portion.

These two are different from him. They've bathed and soaked in the same tub together, and their natural conditions are better than his, so they don't need much.

(End of this chapter)