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2. Porsche 917 - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. List of Porsche engines - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Porsche flat-twelve engine - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

5. Flat-twelve engine - Wikipedia

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   The domination of the Porsche 917 probably influenced Ferrari, because they switched from V12 engines to flat-twelve engines (using a boxer configuration) for the Ferrari 312 PB, which competed from 1971 to 1973. Alfa Romeo also used flat-twelve engines in the 1973-1976 Alfa Romeo 33TT12 and Alfa Romeo 33SC12 sports prototype racing cars.

6. List of Porsche vehicles - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. How an 18-cylinder engine and the Porsche 917 shaped the ...

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   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 ...

8. Mirage (race car) - Wikipedia

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   The M4 was a roadster conceived between the end of 1969 and the beginning of 1970 coupling M3 chassis with a 5-liter Ford GT40 engine, [2] but development of this particular car was stopped once JWAE signed the agreement with Porsche to use their 917 for the 1970 season, [3] while in 1969 M5, a Formula Ford single seater, was built, [2] and ...

9. Porsche in motorsport - Wikipedia

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   As Porsche only had small capacity road and racing cars in the 1950s and 1960s, they scored many wins in their classes, and occasionally also overall victories against bigger cars, most notably winning the Targa Florio in 1956, 1959, 1960, 1964, and every year from 1966 to 1970 in prototypes that lacked horsepower relative to the competition, but which made up for that, with reliability, low ...