Quote Originally Posted by dongramos View Post
Let me just do a bullet list of my two cents worth.
- Pinoy Engineers to design and buid an engine? Definitely. Been there , done that. I was part of the project group that implemented a new engine design. had it prototyped, durability tested and eventually ready for production. Pinoy engineers were involved and even up to now they are still at it.
- .1 mm tolerance? of course and even much much closer tolerances were designed and implemented.
- Ricardo Engineers? worked with them before at their design facility in the UK near brighton.
- Can the Pinoys design and build and engine and even a complete vehicle from zero? Yes we certainly can, but you have to ask the good pinoy engineers to come home and do this for us. Make it worth their while too and not just for a sense of patriotism.
- Financial capability is another thing. It becomes a chicken and egg question. Will you hold off building a car or engine until the market can give you the required economy of scale? Or do you design such that the volume will give you the economy of scale you require. It is a risk and it is a business risk that the capital provider will have to make. This, I believe is the only factor that limits us. Technically the Pinoys can do it because we have done it already, unfortunately not in and for the Philippines.
If the engine is not made in the Philippines and not for the Philippines in a foreign-owned facility, then it is not a Pinoy-built engine.

If you are a Pinoy working for a FOREIGN engine manufacturer using their design and capital equipment, you cannot claim that it is a Filipino-made engine.

The same way that Pinoy computer animators at DISNEY-PIXAR cannot claim that UP is a Pinoy-made movie.