Citação tirada do press release oficial dos 25 Anos do BMW M3:
Paul Rosche recalls: “We started work immediately. One advantage was that
the big six-cylinder engine originally had the same cylinder gap as the
four-cylinder engine. We therefore cut two combustion chambers off the
four-cylinder head of the M88 and bolted a panel over the hole on the rear
side.” This meant that the new four-cylinder engine had a second forebear.
The six-cylinder engine that had initially created a sensation in
the M1 and had meanwhile transformed the M635CSi into one of the fastest
coupés in the world. Paul Rosche: “Whether you believe it or not – we had
created an outstanding four-cylinder engine for the 3 Series within the
space of two weeks. Under the development name S14, this engine was to
generate headlines in sport and in volume production over the years to
come. One Sunday, I drove to von Kuenheim’s flat and gave him the car for
a test drive. When he came back he said: ‘Good, I like it.’ And that’s
how the M3 came into being."
Paul Rosche foi um dos mais importantes engenheiros de motores da BMW, desde os anos setenta até 1999. Posso juntar o press-release completo, se desejarem.
Ricardo Cunha Carreiras disse:
(...) o que mais mexeu comigo foi quando se referem ao BMW M3 e30, quando se diz "O quatro cilindros foi feito a partir do seis cilindros do M1, com dois cilindros literalmente cortados"
O que é isto?
Não sabemos já que a génese do S14 remonta aos motores do 2002?
Eu não sou do contra mas há certas imprecisões que são intoleráveis numa revista que quer ser uma referência de informação especializada.
