Comments by "看海人 Sea Glazer" (@catchnkill) on "REVOLUTIONARY new INLINE 4 - ALFADAN BIG BLOCK i4 ENGINE" video.

  1.  @cannaroe1213  No. Mahle provides contract engineering. You pay them money and they will do whatever engineering you like. They do not care if it works or not. You ask them to test stupid idea. You lose money and Mahle does not care.
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  2.  @cannaroe1213  No. Not partner. Mahle never says that Alfadan is a partner. Don't let cunning wording fool you
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  3. Yes. Definitely a scam. It looks like that the guy read the 7 Marine story. And literally copied everything of 7 Marine's business plan.
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  4. How about this one? A detail nearly sentence by sentence breakdown of this cheat speech of the vaporware engine company's CEO's so called response. If you still believe in this, you must be part of the gang to cheat investors money. Money for nothing if anyone invest in that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNzOX3PRM5A&ab_channel=TheWorkshop
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  5.  @youzrnaim  Of course 7 Marine was not a scam. Alfadan is. I was saying that they derived the idea of making very high horsepower outboard marine from reading the 7 Marine story.
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  6.  @garrettstevens2232  The CEO has stated the parameters last year in a boat forum. It is a in-line 4 cylinders 4 strokes 600hp petrol marine engine with no supercharging or turbocharging. Also no Freevalve in this engine. It runs at 6500rpm maximum, 8400 c.c. and the piston speed does not exceed highest normal production engine i.e. less than 25m/s Within those parameters, it is a extreme over square cylinders. Due to flame propagation difficulties, CEO says that the spark plug will be a patented system :-( I bet that Mahle should have charged them 1 billion US dollars to design such engine
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  7. Yes. Agree. And you can buy one now although there is a long waiting line already. It is also being delivered and installed in real boats
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  8. It is just a computer generated graphic by an artist. Alfadan has not made anything physical. Not a prototype. Not a engineering sample. Nothing except a boatload of shit claims. You may be right that the artist just copied the Mercury V12 outboard to save him/her a bit of work
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  9. It is bad. Otherwise Yamaha, Suzuki and Mercury guys have already done this already. Do you know how big the engineering team of Yamaha? It is at least as big as the Mahle.
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  10. US patent . Should be this one. It is a scotch yoke design actually. Nothing new.
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  11. What? Alfadan is a scam and they have nothing. Those Alfadan guys should enrol internship at Honda to learn the trade
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  12.  @ehb403  Worst still the CEO has already written that the Scotch Yoke patent design not work according to Mahle. Thus he has another patent pending for the "working" design. thehulltruth web site has a thread in the boating forum for more than one year. You see how fishy this whole thing is. He literally changes the narratives as he likes. The conclusion is that it is "vaporware". The whole thing is to hoax innocent investor to shell out money so that the guy can enjoy his life with investors' money.
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  13.  @uncletrashero  In 2020 a crowdsourced investment round. This year a SEC what A investment round again. They took several millions of investment. Money. The money is what they gain.
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  14. Not even a proof of concept. So 0.000001% that you will see this engine being produced. Don't worry. No engine thus no reliability problem
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  15. No Freevalve as written by Alfadan CEO in a reply message at thehulltruth forum
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  16.  @emmanuelmeysman820  Of course Mercury is good. Marketing people say that they have spent more than ten years to develop the 600 hp Verado V12 outboard marine engine. They keep it silent for a decade and roll out the product when it is ready.
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  17. Sorry to disagree. It is only one side claim. Mahle has never come forward to confirm any involvement with ALFADAN. Do not believe until there is proof.
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  18. You should reserve your statement until the first Freevalve production car hits the road.
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  19. Not in the Marine engines.
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  20. They rev not as fast.
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  21. It doesn't. So they abandon Freevalve already as written by the CEO.
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  22. It is called the boxer layout. Subaru and Porsche have been doing it for decades
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  23.  @billspangler2685  Freevalve does not use solenoid. It uses high pressure pneumatic actuator to open the valve and uses hydraulic system to keep the valve at the required lift. A spring is used to close the valve. It is kind of fail-safe. When the ECU does not work, the valves are kept close. No damage to the engine. Just not running only
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  24.  @ericbrenner690  Sure. Single charge will be 72 hours straight. In the city I live, home electric socket output 220 volt 13 Amp max. So a Tesla Model S will require in between 48 hours to 72 hours for a full charge. Home charging station is a one in million thing
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  25. Koenigsegg Gemera engine is a turbo-charge engine. Turbo is the key there
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  26. Koenigsegg is close to production and Alfadan is vaporware. The Gemera engine will use Freevalve technology to open and close the intake and exhaust value. A brand new technology. The first one. Other area the engine is quite normal. The higher output comes from turbo-charging. It is a turbo-charging engine.
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  27.  @xt6wagon  In a thread of discussion in mid-2020 the web site www.thehulltruth.com, the CEO claimed that there will be no Freevalve in the engine. No Freevalve there.
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  28.  @MrDevelopTV  No. Additional electric engines. The 600 HP is for the engine only.
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  29. @Alfred Wedmore I bet on your side. The actuator in itself will be extremely difficult to make. It will have high pressure pneumatic, hydraulic and electric valve elements there. To make it reliable enough to be put in a production car, it will be extremely difficult.
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  30. Because Yamaha is a real company and they do not make vaporware claims to ask for your investment. They sell real product.
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  31. Of course it is a scam. Professional fund investors are not stupid. You need to demonstrate that your technology is promising. What about this? Nothing. The original patent design is determined not feasible by Mahle according to the CEO. However, the CEO said that he has been applying another patent that make his design feasible blah blah blah
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  32. how so? Secondary imbalance is easy. There is a engine layout called Boxer. Subaru and Porsche have been doing it for decades. Why not all engine makers follow them? You can add two counter-balance shaft to reduce the vibration to minimal. There are practical solutions to it already
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  33. This engine is special. Testing in smaller engine size is useless. A lot of problems come from big cylinder. The sheer size of a 1875 cc cylinder creates a set of tough problems to solve. I think you should make a single cylinder 1875 cc test engine for testing.
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  34. This guy cannot compare with 7 Marine. This guy knows virrtually nothing about 4 stokes marine engines. 7 Marine founder have worked in Mercury for many years as technical director. 7 Marine founder is a real engine guy.
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  35. Fit what? No engine. No prototype. Nothing. The scotch yoke patent does not work. Vaporware. Elon Musk goes to MARS and back earlier than you see the engine.
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  36.  @uncletrashero  No Freevalve. The CEO wrote that already in a reply in thehulltruth web site boating forum.
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  37.  @uncletrashero  Don''t be so simple and naive. Pay you back the money? Never. They will claim that all the money have been spent on development. Nothing left.
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  38.  @d.cypher2920  It is the other way round. There was a company 7 marines. They took a GM V8 car engine. And tune up the power, add super-charger and put it in a outboard marine engine. The company was purchased by Volvo-Penta. In early 2021, Volvo killed the brand and stopped selling 7 marines outboard engines
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  39.  @uncletrashero  Freevalve is sexy on paper. However, to put it into production is another issue. They only announced Freevalve equipped engine supercar Gemera has not yet been delivered to customers. I suspect that reliability issues hold it back.
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  40.  @uncletrashero  No. Even the maker himself admitted that his make is far from perfect. No way is it production ready. Production engine is tough. Reliability. He did not explain all the detail as for the reliability issue. How long have he run the engine? Just a few minutes for the video? Or run it as his day to day car. Not yet.
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  41.  @uncletrashero  Ok. It is not production ready also. The guy does not implement the full Freevalve technology. It is a cut down version to make it run. Different people has different character and the choice of wording. "Far from perfect" does not mean that it is already extremely good, just not perfect. It can also be a polite and subtle way to say that it is not ok! Language is fascinating. Context.
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  42. ​ @uncletrashero  Of course not! They did give a contract to Mahle for a feasibility study. Thus, Alfadan is a customer. Mahle in this case cannot say anything bad about Alfadan. If Mahle does come out and say something bad about Alfadan, it will ruin their business model. They are doing contract engineering. What other customers will give contracts to you if Mahle can point fingers at their customers.
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  43.  @uncletrashero  I highly doubt that. I do not think that Mahle has accepted the contract yet. If Mahle is to take the contract, they may earn at least 100 million US dollars on that contract. So difficult and require so much engineering effort. At the best it is Alfadan's intention for contracting Mahle to do everything. But you need to pay up. No money no talk. One or two million for design, testing and building a better than Mercury top end outboard marine engine? I can gather my former friends to contract Mahle for ten engines then. Design, manufacture and build. One mil a engine.
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  44.  @uncletrashero  Not already. Nothing about such contract is shown. It can be a contract for piston design. Or just a second feasibility report. Where can you find that they are already in contract to Mahle for design, testing and build of such engine?
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  45.  @uncletrashero  No. No evidence. Not even the cover or the signature page. No Mahle confirmation. Nothing.
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  46.  @uncletrashero  So it is a scam!
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  47.  @uncletrashero  You start to expose your tail. Hi, Alfadan guy!
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  48.  @psk5746  No. It is a 4 stroke engine as stated in their web site
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  49. Friend, your analogy is brutal. But you are right.
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  50. No. It is not. The company is Qoros, a China company. They have showed a concept car in 2016 Beijiang Motor show in China. You can google it and will find the pictures, articles etc with it
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  51.  @Robis_Grigoris  Yes. 100%. The problem is that his new connecting rod will not enable his in-line four 4 stroke engine to have such high 654 horsepower. It is not possible in current engineering technology. In fact, secondary vibration can be cancelled out two counter-rolling balance shafts. Easy. It has been done for more than 40 years
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  52. It is a twin turbo engine. It is not a big deal since there are turbo-chargers
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  53.  @ACatKrom  That's why the CEO wrote that there will be no Freevalve in the inline four engine in a reply in thehullltruth forum thread. So this is a elaborate scam from a highly intelligent trickster
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  54.  @mrlarrybobjr  Exactly. If anyone invest in this company, he/she will lose every dollar. They do not even have a pack of paper towel in return to wipe their tear.　The following is directly cut from their web site a minute ago. "We are currently under contract with Mahle Powertrain for engineering, development testing, and manufacturing of the i4 engine and have secured relationships with manufacturers of all specific additional sub-assemblies. Once our prototypes have been tested and stressed we can begin the manufacturing and sales process." Smell foul here?
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  55. No Freevalve. They have changed their saying already.
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  56.  @d4a  Do you do maths? Can you take the Workshop videos and think about the physics of this engine? If you think that it works, please explain how to ensure that the connection rod and wrist pin will not shatter? Have you thought of any WORKSHOP's argument? 1875cc per cylinder 4 stroke ICE. 5500 rpm also. 654 hp. How?
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  57. Not true. Outboard engines also require high torque. The boats need to navigate through marinas in low speed.
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  58. Don't you see that ALFADAN is a scam? You can make a 654 hp marine engine. Everyone can. Just talking only, no action. Why not? You can talk whatever shit you are able to do. Prove it!
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  59. I would say SCAM. Marketing is to promote a product. In this case, it is a series of claims. The scheme is to trick you to give money to them. There will never be any return to its investors. Never.
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  60. Not yet. Unless you want to sink the boat or stop in the middle of the ocean when the battery run out
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  61. No. In-line 4. Written clearly in their web site and SEC document
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  62. You mean the computer graphic? Really. A piece of computer graphic work changes what? ALFADAN has not yet made anything physical. Not even a prototype. No engineering sample. Nothing but trash talk
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  63. What fuel did the Offy engine use?
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  64.  @glencalhoun9544  Wrong. Mahle does consulting service. You can ask Mahle to evaluate your new engine design. You pay and they will prepare a report. In fact, Alfadan has been talking for a long time of Mahle's feasibility report on their engine design. It is definitely a scam
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  65.  @glencalhoun9544  No Freevalve now. May be Mr. Koeninsegg himself cut the connection.
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  66. Because it is a smaller engine. The Offy was a 5078cc engine. The Alfadan is a 7500cc engine. Each cylinder is a lot of bigger. Moreover, Indy race is nothing comparing with a Marine engine. Racing team can perform very detail and teardown maintenance to the engine. And you cannot teardown the Marine engine for maintenance after each use.
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  67. Cost
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  68. It is a marine engine. You sink the boat when you put really heavy stuff to it
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  69.  @donbrashsux  Of course not. It is a scam. Do you know the cost of developing a brand new high power 4 stroke engine in current world? It may take 100 million US? That's why 7 Marine used existing GM V8 car engine to tune it up, add super-charger.
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  70.  @jonshaffer5793  Not. Not even close. It is a marine engine. Energy density of gasoline to battery is still more than 100 times. You cannot add battery to the ship to compensate the lack of range. Too heavy and it will sink the boat.
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