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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.
The engines were air-cooled until 1999, when Porsche started using water-cooled engines. [6] Other Porsche models that use flat-six engines are the 1970–1972 Porsche 914/6 , the 1986–1993 Porsche 959 (rear-engine), and the 1996–2021 Porsche Boxster/Cayman (mid-engine).
1.5 Porsche 718 / Porsche 787. 1.6 Porsche 804. ... (579 PS; 571 bhp) bi-turbo boxer flat-six (air-cooled cylinders, water-cooled heads) (936/78 Spyder)
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 ...
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.
Porsche's 914/6 variant featured the 2.0 L air-cooled Type 901/3 flat-six engine from the 1967–1969 911T model. This was the least powerful flat-six in Porsche's lineup. This engine had revised pistons that reduced the compression ratio to 8.6:1.
Assembled from a never-used body shell and parts supplied by Porsche Classic, it's basically a brand-new 993 Turbo. Porsche Built a Brand-New Air-Cooled 911 For the First Time in 20 Years Skip to ...
By 1960, air-cooled [a] 1,494 cc DOHC flat-eight fuel-injected desmodromic Porsche 753 engine was in development for Formula One, Porsche 418 Master four cylinder 3.3L diesel [3] (48 hp (36 kW; 49 PS)) was added to the tractor range, and the 356 was starting to show its limits after a 10-year product life.