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The Porsche 917 is a sports prototype race car developed by German manufacturer Porsche to exploit the regulations regarding the construction of 5-litre sports cars. Powered by a Type 912 flat-12 engine which was progressively enlarged from 4.5 to 5.0 litres, the 917 was introduced in 1969 and initially proved unwieldy on the race track but continuous development improved the handling and it ...
917/30: Type 912 180° V12 917/16 Spyder: V16 1969 4.5 L (4,494 cc) 383 kW (521 PS; 514 bhp) 460 N⋅m (339 lbf⋅ft) Type 912 air-cooled, four-stroke 180° V12 (917 Langheck, 917 Kurzheck) 1970 5.0 L (4,999 cc) 442 kW (601 PS; 593 bhp) 549 N⋅m (405 lbf⋅ft) Type 912 air-cooled, four-stroke 180° V12 (917 Langheck, 917 Kurzheck, 917 Spyder ...
In 1976 they would return to sport-prototype racing with the turbocharged Porsche 936 race cars after the engines were tested in Porsche 911 versions. After their successes with the 917 mainly in Europe, Porsche instead decided to focus on the North American markets and the Can-Am Challenge. For that series, larger and more powerful engines ...
Mid/full-size luxury liftback sedan. TAYCAN: Taycan: 2019 ... Porsche 908 Spyder Porsche 917 Porsche 936 Porsche 935/77 2.0 Porsche 935/78 Porsche 956 Porsche 962; 1968.
The first known flat-twelve engine was built by Porsche in 1947 for the abandoned Cisitalia Grand Prix racing car. The engine, known as the Porsche Typ 360, was supercharged and had a displacement of 1.5 L (92 cu in). [1] One engine was built and the car conducted top speed testing, but it never competed in any races. [2]
Porsche 917 experimental Can-Am engine. A flat-sixteen engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-sixteen, is a sixteen-cylinder piston engine with eight cylinders on each side of a central crankshaft. Flat-sixteen engines are less common than V16 engines, with only a couple of prototype racing engines using a flat-sixteen layout.
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When the minimum number was lowered to twenty-five for 1969, the more modern Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512 were homologated and outran the older Lolas and Fords. Chevrolet powered coupes tended to not run as well in Europe as they did in North America. Some reliability problems arose when racing in Europe, mainly due to the grade of fuel allowed.