04.04.2009, 22:43
Well I should think whether you refer to the ASB/ASC as D series modifications to the AS engine rather than AS modification to the DB/DC hardly makes a difference.
A historian would list the A series, AS series and D series like this:
A, AM
AS, ASM, ASB, ASC
D, DM, D-2, DB, DC
Where I come from a mechanical approach. We would list the A and D series as follows, and wouldn't even recognise an AS series as distinct.
A, AM, AS, ASM
D, D-2, DB, DC, ASB, ASC
One follows the paper trail, the other follows mechanical description. Very similar things happen when documenting automotive technologies. You get one version in commercial print, you get the other in workshop handbooks.
AS is just a 603 supercharger fitment. AS describes 603 supercharger fitment to the 605 motor.
D is a wide series of internal changes and its own supercharger fitment.
Ergo ASB/ASC is both, this is the only leap I've made and it follows direct inferrence from documentation, both figures and statements to the letter. AS=603 supercharger. Performance outputs clearly outline a commonality with the DB and DC and most definitely not with the AS or A.
To my thinking an entire engine series called "AS series" has simply been invented without mechanical construction in mind, when for example the AS is clearly stated by Daimler to be a variation of the 605A and this strictly defines a member of the "A series"
I mean I'm going to get stuck on that point a fair bit here. Are we in agreement the 605AS is precisely and no more than a 605A-1 with a 603 supercharger fitted?
I can look up the documentation.
A historian would list the A series, AS series and D series like this:
A, AM
AS, ASM, ASB, ASC
D, DM, D-2, DB, DC
Where I come from a mechanical approach. We would list the A and D series as follows, and wouldn't even recognise an AS series as distinct.
A, AM, AS, ASM
D, D-2, DB, DC, ASB, ASC
One follows the paper trail, the other follows mechanical description. Very similar things happen when documenting automotive technologies. You get one version in commercial print, you get the other in workshop handbooks.
AS is just a 603 supercharger fitment. AS describes 603 supercharger fitment to the 605 motor.
D is a wide series of internal changes and its own supercharger fitment.
Ergo ASB/ASC is both, this is the only leap I've made and it follows direct inferrence from documentation, both figures and statements to the letter. AS=603 supercharger. Performance outputs clearly outline a commonality with the DB and DC and most definitely not with the AS or A.
To my thinking an entire engine series called "AS series" has simply been invented without mechanical construction in mind, when for example the AS is clearly stated by Daimler to be a variation of the 605A and this strictly defines a member of the "A series"
I mean I'm going to get stuck on that point a fair bit here. Are we in agreement the 605AS is precisely and no more than a 605A-1 with a 603 supercharger fitted?
I can look up the documentation.