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Porsche flat-6 engine Flat-6 engine in an older air-cooled 911. The Porsche flat-six engine series is a line of mechanically similar, naturally aspirated and sometimes turbocharged, flat-six boxer engines, produced by Porsche for almost 60 consecutive years, since 1963.
Continental O-470-13A air-cooled aircraft engine. A flat-six engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-six, is a six-cylinder piston engine with three cylinders on each side of a central crankshaft. The most common type of flat-six engine is the boxer-six engine, where each pair of opposed cylinders moves inwards and outwards at the same ...
1953–1957 1.5 L (1,498 cc) 81 kW (110 PS; 109 bhp) 117 N⋅m (86 lb⋅ft) Type 547 air-cooled, four-stroke, DOHC, eight-valve boxer flat-four (550/1500 RS); 1956–1957 1.5 L (1,498 cc) 99 kW (135 PS; 133 bhp) 145 N⋅m (107 lb⋅ft) Type 547 air-cooled, four-stroke, DOHC, eight-valve boxer flat-four (550 A/1500 RS)
The new SCR has carbon fibre body work, an integrated roll-cage and a 4.0-litre naturally-aspirated flat-6 engine based on the unit found in the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0, generating a maximum power output of 510 PS (375 kW; 503 hp) and 470 N⋅m (347 lb⋅ft) of torque with a red-line of 8,200 rpm. The car has a 6-speed manual transmission ...
The Porsche PFM 3200 was a six-cylinder horizontally opposed air-cooled aircraft engine developed by Porsche from its air-cooled line of automobile engines from the famous Porsche 911 sports car. The PFM designation was derived from the name of the division that designed the engines, Porsche-Flugmotoren ("Porsche Flight Engines").
The last flat-six-powered Porsche prototype was the Le Mans-winning 911 GT1-98. Since then, its prototypes have used V-4 and V-8 engines. Here's why.
The power was decreased by around thirty percent, now with just 640 hp. Instead of the 5-speed gearbox, a stronger 4-speed unit was used together with the 2.65-litre engine. [2] So a few 936s were pulled out of the Porsche museum in Stuttgart, redesigned to create the 936/81 and entered as 2 official works entries for the 1981 Le Mans 24 Hours ...
The Type 996 introduced in 1998 represented two major changes for the venerable 911 lineage: a water-cooled flat-6 engine replaced the popular air-cooled engine used in the 911 for 34 years and the body shell received its first major re-design. Changing to a water-cooled engine was controversial with Porsche traditionalists, who noted this as ...