Daihatsu A-series engine
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The Daihatsu A-series engine is a range of compact two-cylinder internal combustion piston engines, designed by Daihatsu with the aid of their owner Toyota. Petrol-driven, it has cast iron engine blocks and aluminum cylinder heads, which are of a single overhead cam lean burn design with belt-driven camshafts. The head design was called "TGP lean-burn", for "Turbulence Generating Pot".[1] The engine also had twin balancing shafts, which provided smoothness equivalent to that of a traditional four-cylinder engine - although it also cost nearly as much to build.[2]
The engine was developed with some haste in order to replace the two-stroke "ZM" engines used in Daihatsu's earlier Kei cars, and was the first unit to take full advantage of the new 550 cc displacement limit in effect from 1 January 1976. It was first presented in May 1976 as the AB10.[3] Eventually, even a turbocharged version was produced.[4] The engine was replaced by the three-cylinder EB-series in 1985.[5]
The AB-series is a 547 cc (0.55 L) version, originally installed in the 1976 Fellow Max 550 but was eventually used in Daihatsu's entire Kei car lineup. Bore is 71.6 mm and stroke is 68 mm. Unlike export versions, Japanese-market engines have a small catalyzer fitted.[6] The engine (AB20) was also installed in the Portuguese Entreposto Sado 550 citycar, of which about 500 were built in the early 1980s.[7] Daihatsu's close competitor, Suzuki, fitted AB10 engines into their Fronte 7-S for a short period, as their own two-stroke engines could not meet increasingly-strict emissions requirements.[8] Suzuki did not buy complete engines, with 43 percent in-house content (by price); the blocks, however, still carried Daihatsu logos and "AB10" stampings.[9]
Engines designed to be installed in an upright position are denoted AB10, while those intended for a horizontal position (for underfloor usage) are called AB20. The AB55 is a horizontal version equipped with a turbocharger. A downtuned version with 9 PS (6.6 kW) at 2900 rpm and 2.8 kg⋅m (27 N⋅m; 20 lb⋅ft) at 2000 rpm was installed in Toyota's 500 kg (1,100 lb) FG5 forklift from the late 1970s.[10]
Applications:
- 1976.05–1977.06 Daihatsu Fellow Max 550 (L40/L40V)
- 1977.06–1980.06 Daihatsu Max Cuore/Cuore (L45/L40V)
- 1980.06–1985.08 Daihatsu Cuore/Mira (L55/L55V)
- 1976.04–1980.04 Daihatsu Hijet (S40)
- 1977.04–1981.04 Daihatsu Hijet (S60)
- 1982–1984 Sado 550 (Portugal)
- 1977.06–1978 Suzuki Fronte 7-S (SS11)
| Name and layout |
Power | Torque | Norm | Comp. | Fuel system |
Cat | Fitment | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS | kW | at rpm | kgm | Nm | lbft | at rpm | ||||||||
| AB-10 | 4V SOHC |
28 | 21 | 6000 | 3.9 | 38 | 28 | 3500 | JIS | 8.7 | carb | ● | Fellow Max 550 (L40/L40V),[11] Max Cuore (L45/L40V), Suzuki Fronte 7-S (SS11) | |
| AB-30 | 29 | 21 | 4.0 | 39 | 29 | 9.2 | – | Cuore Van (L40V), [Max] Cuore (L40, export) Mira/Mira Cuore (L55V) | Commercials and export models | |||||
| 26 | 19 | 3.8 | 37 | 27 | DIN[12] | |||||||||
| 31 | 23 | 4.2 | 41 | 30 | JIS | ● | Cuore (L45), Cuore (L55) | |||||||
| AB-31 | 30 | 22 | 4.2 | 41 | 30 | ? | Mira/Mira Cuore (L55V)[4] | |||||||
| AB-?? | 27 | 20 | 4.5 | 44 | 33 | DIN | 9.2 | – | Cuore Van (L40V), Mira/Mira Cuore (L55V) | Export version | ||||
| AB-35 | 41 | 30 | 5.7 | 56 | 41 | 2500 | JIS | 8.2 | turbo | Mira Turbo (L55V)[13] | IHI turbocharger | |||
| AB-20 | 28 | 21 | 5500 | 4.0 | 39 | 29 | 3500 | 9.2 | carb | Hijet 550 (S40), Hijet Wide 550 (S60), Sado 550 | ||||
| 28 | 21 | 4.2 | 41 | 30 | Hijet 550 (S65/66), Hijet Atrai (S65/66), 81.04-82.03 | |||||||||
| 29 | 21 | 4.5 | 44 | 33 | Hijet 550 (S65/66, 82.04-??) | |||||||||
| AB-50 | 29 | 21 | 4.4 | 43 | 32 | ● | Hijet Atrai (S65/66, 82.04-83.09)[14] | horizontally mounted, passenger car emissions | ||||||
| AB-51 | 29 | 21 | 5300 | 4.5 | 44 | 33 | Atrai (S65/66, 83.09-86.03) | modified carb, advanced ignition[14] | ||||||
| AB-55 | 39 | 29 | 5500/5300 | 5.9 | 58 | 43 | 3000 | turbo | Atrai Turbo (S65/66, 83.10-86.03) | max power at lower rpm from 1984.02 | ||||
