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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 ...
Power came from a new 4.5-litre air-cooled engine designed by Mezger, which was a combination of 2 of Porsche's 2.25L flat-6 engines used in previous racing cars. The 'Type 912' engine featured a 180° flat-12 cylinder layout, twin overhead camshafts driven from centrally mounted gears and twin spark plugs fed from two distributors . [ 10 ]
1.17 Porsche 917. 1.18 Porsche 918. 1.19 Porsche 919 Hybrid (9R9) ... Porsche 986 engines Vehicle Engine MY Engine numbers Technical data [2] Boxster: M96.20: 1997: V ...
Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive roadster (Boxster) and fastback coupe (Cayman). ... Porsche 908 Spyder Porsche 917 Porsche 936 Porsche 935/77 2.0 Porsche 935/78 ...
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]
Ferdinand Karl Piëch (1937-2019), a brilliant engineer who rose to the top of the Volkswagen Group during a long and illustrious career, sketched out an 18-cylinder engine in 1997, on the back of ...
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.
During the 1970s, Martini became famous in connection with Porsche in motorsport, sponsoring the works Porsche 917 that won the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Martini Porsche cars won Le Mans once more in 1976 and 1977 with Porsche 936 , as well as in many other events in the 1970s for the factory Porsche team, with the RSR Turbo , 935 and 936.