"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
03/10/2014 at 15:13 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
03/10/2014 at 15:13 • Filed to: None | 0
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A flat-6, turbos, cooling, all takes up space. When removed there was enough room for Joest Racing and FABCAR to drop in a Falconer v-12 with just a small spacer. It was cheaper, weighed about the same and had more power in N/A form. It tested and ran awesome. sounded even more so. Porsche heard..and stopped it cold.
Picture: mulsannescorner.com / dave klym
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Grindintosecond
03/10/2014 at 15:49 |
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Porsche has a motorsports reputation, and I can't imagine that they want people thinking that their prototype race cars might have used alternate engines other than Porsche's own fare.
It isn't quite the same as shoe-horning a small block into the back of a 911, where everybody knows that is an after-market job...
A Porsche 962 is rare enough that if people see one with a Falconer GM-based pushrod V12 in there, they might think it has always been in there, and that Porsche may have officially used it, or unofficially used it and not said so.
If you want 12 Cylinders in a Porsche 962... use a 917 flat 12 that actually WAS a Porsche engine... but even that might not be smiled upon by Porsche.