[MoparNorm]

SptFury, on 09 November 2009 - 01:49 PM, said:

Is M-B to still get some of the Pentastar V6 production?

We could, but we should treat Daimler the same way they treated us. Get them to convert their entire line to accept only Pentastars and then after giving them the first motor at our cost, every succeeding motor is $450,000 each..... :angry:

[browens1534]

ShadowRider, on 09 November 2009 - 08:19 PM, said:

I think they will just build their own and give it a different name.

I don't think it is.. I have read that the Pentastar was to be used by Hyundai also. But those plans are done, and I assume the same for the DBAG version.

This post has been edited by browens1534: 09 November 2009 - 11:01 PM

[superduckie5000]

From the Inside of Trenton South.
My Friends There Told Me the the New Bosses Absolutely Want the Trenton South Plant Running at Full Capacity One Year From Now Period. They Also Asked, How Can They Get the Machine Shop to Run 10% Faster.
Sound Like They Want to Put the New V-6's to Work.
Now the Question:
How Far Behind is the Mexican Phoenix Plant?
I Heard It Was Delayed Because of Our Problems.

The Mad Duck

[drew54]

superduckie5000, on 09 November 2009 - 10:48 PM, said:

From the Inside of Trenton South.
My Friends There Told Me the the New Bosses Absolutely Want the Trenton South Plant Running at Full Capacity One Year From Now Period. They Also Asked, How Can They Get the Machine Shop to Run 10% Faster.
Sound Like They Want to Put the New V-6's to Work.
Now the Question:
How Far Behind is the Mexican Phoenix Plant?
I Heard It Was Delayed Because of Our Problems.

The Mad Duck

What would be a reasonable number of engines produced per day at a plant that ran 24/7? Would that be cheaper to have one plant at full capacity that bringing the one in Mexico online?

[dana44]

drew54, on 10 November 2009 - 06:29 AM, said:

What would be a reasonable number of engines produced per day at a plant that ran 24/7? Would that be cheaper to have one plant at full capacity that bringing the one in Mexico online?

Two reasons I would think two plants would be better than running one 24/7.

Ability to conduct maintenance during down time.
Less spent to ship engines all over the place.
Problems at one plant could prevent full shutdown of the whole line.

I guess there are three good reasons to have two plants.

[drew54]

dana44, on 11 November 2009 - 01:44 AM, said:

Two reasons I would think two plants would be better than running one 24/7.

Ability to conduct maintenance during down time.
Less spent to ship engines all over the place.
Problems at one plant could prevent full shutdown of the whole line.

I guess there are three good reasons to have two plants.

Good points that I was not thinking of. In a perfect world where nothing breaks, or needs maintenance one plant will do. Sadly there is no perfect world.

[superduckie5000]

The Mexican Penastar Plant May Be Past the Point of No Return in Tooling It Up.

I Belive the Trenton Full Prod. # is Around 440,000.

The Mad Duck

This post has been edited by superduckie5000: 11 November 2009 - 02:57 PM