Hand Built Engines??
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Hand Built Engines??
I've always wondered if the 55 engines are really made by hand. I mean torston(my dads is same as engine in top gear episode) must go crazy with 18,000 engines to build a year!
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I think there is a broad definition of "Hand Built" and mfgs use it differently. Can something be called hand built if only 25% is built by hand, how about 75%? See where this is going......
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Each engine is hand assembeled in Affalterbach. The parts are not made by hand, yet are made by the highest quality machines in the world. The engines are not assemebled on a factory line, like other engines MBZ makes.
Yet the engine is hand assemebled by one and only one person.
Yet the engine is hand assemebled by one and only one person.
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That is still a ton of work for torston and the "few selected induviduals" to do, especially if only one person puts together one engine. Imagine what torston is thinking at the beginning of the year-one down and only 17,999 to go
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AMG engines are 100% hand built. Each engine has one guy working on one engine stand. The guy doesn't cast his own blocks, hydraulically crack his own rods, or forge his own pistons, but he does hand build, as in assemble, every engine he signs for.
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This guy Torston is one of many AMG techs that build engines as proven by the various names on AMG engines.
From reading your posts, you make it sound like the poor guy builds 18,000 engines a year, all by himself. I would imagine it isn't possible for this guy to build 18,000 engines in his lifetime
From reading your posts, you make it sound like the poor guy builds 18,000 engines a year, all by himself. I would imagine it isn't possible for this guy to build 18,000 engines in his lifetime
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Sorry, I exaggerated a little too much. Anyone know how many people put these engines together?
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50 mechanics........I was in Affalterbach in August.The plaques of the current mechanics are posted on a board in the factory.If you get the chance to tour the factory...you will be blown away.
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We didn't visit the AMG factory but we toured the main MBZ factory outside of Stuttgart, that was amazing to see the cars assembled. We also toured the Porsche factory where the also hand built each engine. One guy builds 3 engines per day. Porsche stopped stamping their engines with name plates because they were getting requests from prior customers to have specific guys build their engines. Thought that was interesting.
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Wow I was thinking 300 guys I mean 50 guys induvidually build 3 a day sounds like a lot but when the math is done they only have to work one third of the year to build almost exactly 18,000 engines.
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My dads name is steve not torston. My dads engine has the same name on it as the one in the top gear episode. Thats what i was trying to say. Sorry for the 12th time-im not too good at starting threads yet.
