=== Days Gone By=== Days Spent with Cars – 8. Aiming for the Tokyo Motor Show <continued> From then on we had meetings with Toyota every other day. Unlike tuning the engines alone, building a complete car would normally mean putting together a large team that included all of the Toyota technical divisions involved, but going that route that would severely hamper progress. Toyota affirmed that the project was a special case and made the somewhat unconventional decision to—in principle—not use its corporate management structure in the project to solve this problem. So, Kawano-san (head of the project), Shinichi Yamazaki (in charge of the chassis and suspension), Satoru Nozaki (design & body) and Hidemasa Takagi (interior) from Toyota’s product planning team and Yamaha’s technical division would handle the sports car project. As a result, these four men were temporarily stationed at Yamaha and every day after that, we would all work well past clock-out time. The fundamental concept for the project was to create a true, world-class sports car the likes of which had never been built before in Japan, so we tried to include any and all new technologies we could at the time. To power the car, we would build a new DOHC engine using the block of Toyota’s M family of 2,000cc straight-six engines, and use three two-barrel Weber40 carburetors. For the suspension, we chose 4-wheel independent suspension with disc brakes all around and magnesium wheels. Photo: By altering the Toyota Crown’s engine to use a DOHC format, the Toyota 2000GT’s engine made much more power. <continues> #Yamaha #RevsyourHeart #cars #automotive #manufacturing #engineering #history
Joji Ochiai
2mo
Exciting times!
Attended G.B. Pant Govt. Engineering College
2moImpressive growth!