Iran Unveils Six-Cylinder Petrol Engine

Speaking in the unveiling ceremony, Dehghani Firouzabadi pointed to the capability of knowledge-based companies in designing, producing and optimizing driving forces (engines) and said that big gasoline-fueled driving forces (engines) are a type of engines that are used in many types of cars and are produced in accordance with the needs of the country's strategic industries.

The vice president also pointed to the 6-cylinder petrol engine, adding, “A competent knowledge-based company in the country, consisting of several experts and professors of top universities from Iran and the world, has taken a step towards the locally-producing this engine and today they have obtained remarkable success.”

“More than 40 people from the top universities at the national and international levels gathered and step towards acquiring the know-how of one of the most well-known and widely used six-cylinder engines in a four-year period program. By God’s grace, today they succeeded in making a domestically-made sample of this engine.”

Dehghani Firouzabadi further said that the engine is produced with a high level of quality and in conformity with the latest standards.

“Today, the capability to produce a 4,000 cc six-cylinder petrol engine, which is considered a strategic engine and has applications in various industrial and military fields, has been proven in this knowledge-based firm,” he continued.

“On average, the country's defense industry needs about 10,000 of these engines for its vehicles, and taking into account the needs of other sectors, this volume would reach 30,000.”

“Experts in this project managed to acquire 45% indigenous know-how of engine manufacturing and 10 main parts of the engine were successfully reverse engineered,” he further asserted.

The vice president went on to express hope that the mass production of the engine will soon begin.

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