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Hairy monsters - the Porsche 917/10 Can-Am Spyder Porsche 917/10-018 (1973) Jody Scheckter, photographed at Laverstoke House, Overton, UK, 2017 Jody Scheckter was born in East London on the east coast of South Africa, a sleepy seaside town that actually carried the honour of being the country's motorsport centre up until the early 1960s.
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Porsche's 917 PA Spyder Packs 800+ HP Flat-16 Engine On: November 22, 2023 Wild 16-Cylinder Boxer Engine: Unheard Of! Porsche's iconoclastic 917 race autos weren't manufactured suddenly; the iconic German manufacturer had to endure extensive development and prototype testing, ultimately developing a revolutionary 16-cylinder motor.
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Idle speed is around 1,000 rpm like you're used to, but all the power is up high, so give it more revs than you think when you release the clutch, or you'll stall a Porsche 917 in front of.
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In honor of the 12 Hours of Sebring-winning Porsche RS Spyder, Sports Car Digest highlights the Porsche 917 PA Spyder.
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The 917/30 of 1973 was, for all intents and purposes, an all-new car when compared to its predecessor. At the heart of the car was an enlarged 5.4-liter flat 12-cylinder engine - turbocharged, of.
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Called "one of the strongest racing cars of all time", this advanced 12-cylinder vehicle dominates circuit races. With Mark Donohue at the wheel, it beats out McLaren with a long lead for the second time in the CanAm Series. It's the first time that turbochar ging has prevailed on a race course with so many curves.
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Authorised at the beginning of June 1969, the new 917 Spyder evolved over the next ten weeks and was referred to as the 917 PA (Prototype America). Chassis. A pair of new 917 aluminium spaceframes were fabricated for the job. Chassis 027 was retained by Porsche for development work and chassis 028 was sent out to race in the USA.
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Having made a solid debut in Can-Am with the 1969 Group 7 917 Spyder, Porsche had nevertheless been soundly beaten by the works McLaren M8Bs with their seven-litre 635bhp Chevrolet engines. In comparison, the Flat 12 engine used by Porsche in 1969 had displaced just 4.5-litres and produced 580bhp.
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In 1972, Porsche is the only manufacturer to deploy turbo engines on the angular circuits of the Can-Am Championship; it wins the title by a wide margin with the 917/10. Porsche gets the 1973 season off to a blistering start with the 917/30 Spyder. Its 5.4-litre twelve-cylinder twin turbo engine delivers up to 1,200 PS, sprinting to 200 km/h in.
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1972 Porsche 917/10 Spyder. Dominated the '72 Can-Am series, taking first at five of nine races. Penske then sold 003 to Rinzler and it was cam- paigned as the #16 car in RC Cola livery for the '73 Can-Am season. Capable of making over 1,150 horsepower, 0-100 mph in 2.9 seconds.
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Fully equipped, the Porsche 917 PA tipped the scales at 775 kg. Two examples were constructed; one was sent to North American while the other was retained by Porsche for testing purposes. Less than a week after winning the last round of the championship at Zeltweg in the regular 917, Swiss racer Jo Siffert first took to the track in the 917 PA.
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Engineers fully dedicate themselves to continuing to develop Porsche turbo technology, while the sixteen-cylinder 917 Spyder is destined instead for the Porsche Museum in October 1971. Year: 1969 Engine: 16-cylinder V 180˚ Displacement: 6,543 ccm Output: 555 kW (755 PS) Weight: 841 kg Top speed: 360 km/h next page 1970: Porsche 917 KH (short-tail)
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Three lightweight 917 Spyders were prepared by Porsche specifically for the Interserie, a new European-based racing series that mimicked the Can-Am rules from North America. Since it was initially run under Group 7 regulations, Porsche could remove the roof and make the design even more potent.
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This is how the famous Porsche 917's flat-12 sounds like when you have a quad exhaust system instead of the usual "double-exit" one. Yes, yes: "Hellou, Capta.
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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.
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At the end of what had been a very successful season, chassis 01-021 returned to Porsche who subsequently loaned it to Ernst Kraus for a trio of late season Interserie races in 1972 after Kraus's own 917 Spyder (chassis 031) had incurred damage at Hockenheim.